RE: Affinity managed interrupts vs non-managed interrupts

[Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@broadcom.com>]

> Hi Thomas, Kashyap,
>
> At 09/04/2018 06:29 PM, Kashyap Desai wrote:
> >>> I am using " for-4.19/block " and this particular patch "a0c9259
> >>> irq/matrix: Spread interrupts on allocation" is included.
> >>
>
> IMO, this patch is just used for non-managed interrupts.
>
> >> So if all 16 have their effective affinity set to CPU0 then that's
> > strange
>
> But, all these 16 are managed interrupts, and will be assigned vectors
> by assign_managed_vector():
> {
>      cpumask_and(vector_searchmask, vector_searchmask, affmsk);
>      cpu = cpumask_first(vector_searchmask);
>
>      ...
>      vector = irq_matrix_alloc_managed(vector_matrix, cpu);
>      ...
> }
>
> Where we always used the *first* cpu in the vector_searchmask(0-71), not
> the suitable one. So I guess this situation happened.
>
> Shall we also spread the managed interrupts on allocation?


Hi Dou,

I tried your proposed patch. Using patch, It is not assigning effective irq
to CPU = 0 , but it pick *one* cpu from 0-71 range.
Eventually, effective cpu is always *one* logical cpu. Behavior is
different, but impact is still same.