Re: [PATCH] genirq/affinity: create affinity mask for single vector

Keith Busch
2019-08-08T15:20:14Z

On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 09:19:06AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> Since commit c66d4bd110a1f8 ("genirq/affinity: Add new callback for
> (re)calculating interrupt sets"), irq_create_affinity_masks() returns
> NULL in case of single vector. This change has caused regression on some
> drivers, such as lpfc.
>
> The problem is that single vector may be triggered in some generic cases:
> 1) kdump kernel 2) irq vectors resource is close to exhaustion.
>
> If we don't create affinity mask for single vector, almost every caller
> has to handle the special case.
>
> So still create affinity mask for single vector, since irq_create_affinity_masks()
> is capable of handling that.

Hi Ming,

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>

> ---
> kernel/irq/affinity.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/irq/affinity.c b/kernel/irq/affinity.c
> index 4352b08ae48d..6fef48033f96 100644
> --- a/kernel/irq/affinity.c
> +++ b/kernel/irq/affinity.c
> @@ -251,11 +251,9 @@ irq_create_affinity_masks(unsigned int nvecs, struct irq_affinity *affd)
> * Determine the number of vectors which need interrupt affinities
> * assigned. If the pre/post request exhausts the available vectors
> * then nothing to do here except for invoking the calc_sets()
> - * callback so the device driver can adjust to the situation. If there
> - * is only a single vector, then managing the queue is pointless as
> - * well.
> + * callback so the device driver can adjust to the situation.
> */
> - if (nvecs > 1 && nvecs > affd->pre_vectors + affd->post_vectors)
> + if (nvecs > affd->pre_vectors + affd->post_vectors)
> affvecs = nvecs - affd->pre_vectors - affd->post_vectors;
> else
> affvecs = 0;
> --