From: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: axboe@fb.com, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] blk-mq: allow the driver to pass in an affinity mask
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 10:24:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160901142410.GA10903@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160901084624.GC4115@lst.de>
On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 10:46:24AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:38:53PM -0400, Keith Busch wrote:
> > This can't be right. We have a single affinity mask for the entire
> > set, but what I think we want is an one affinity mask for each
> > nr_io_queues. The irq_create_affinity_mask should then create an array
> > of cpumasks based on nr_vecs..
>
> Nah, this is Thomas' creating abuse of the cpumask type. Every bit set
> in the affinity_mask means this is a cpu we allocate a vector / queue to.
Yeah, I gathered that's what it was providing, but that's just barely
not enough information to do something useful. The CPUs that aren't set
have to use a previously assigned vector/queue, but which one?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-01 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-29 10:53 blk-mq: allow passing in an external queue mapping V2 Christoph Hellwig
2016-08-29 10:53 ` [PATCH 1/7] blk-mq: don't redistribute hardware queues on a CPU hotplug event Christoph Hellwig
2016-08-29 10:53 ` [PATCH 2/7] blk-mq: only allocate a single mq_map per tag_set Christoph Hellwig
2016-08-29 10:53 ` [PATCH 3/7] blk-mq: remove ->map_queue Christoph Hellwig
2016-08-29 10:53 ` [PATCH 4/7] blk-mq: allow the driver to pass in an affinity mask Christoph Hellwig
2016-08-31 16:38 ` Keith Busch
2016-09-01 8:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-01 14:24 ` Keith Busch [this message]
2016-09-01 23:30 ` Keith Busch
2016-09-05 19:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-06 14:39 ` Keith Busch
2016-09-06 16:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-06 17:30 ` Keith Busch
2016-09-07 15:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-08-29 10:53 ` [PATCH 5/7] nvme: switch to use pci_alloc_irq_vectors Christoph Hellwig
2016-08-29 10:53 ` [PATCH 6/7] nvme: remove the post_scan callout Christoph Hellwig
2016-08-29 10:53 ` [PATCH 7/7] blk-mq: get rid of the cpumask in struct blk_mq_tags Christoph Hellwig
2016-08-30 23:28 ` blk-mq: allow passing in an external queue mapping V2 Keith Busch
2016-09-01 8:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
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