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Ideally this (Nth of X) > should even be part of request_irq() args. IRQ core already knows the > device/NUMA node. Drivers juggling multiple flavors of uAPI-shaped API > is... not very scalable. People rarely get this right. Fully agree: drivers should not set affinities. They should just express desires or additional constraints. The ultimately resulting affinity for an IRQ should be the result of the various constraints that kernel and userland may express via NUMA placements, isolcpus, some dynamic isolation/grouping constraints, or you-name-it. I think we need a big picture how things should eventually look like and then develop a strategy how to step-wise convert existing code. Jan -- Siemens AG, Foundational Technologies Linux Expert Center