From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:46531 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751991AbcKHITU (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2016 03:19:20 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 09:19:17 +0100 From: Johannes Thumshirn To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, axboe@kernel.dk, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] genirq/affinity: Introduce struct irq_affinity Message-ID: <20161108081917.xgakcmof2koldr6n@linux-x5ow.site> References: <1478544462-9549-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> <1478544462-9549-2-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <1478544462-9549-2-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> Sender: linux-pci-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > From: Christogh Hellwig > > Some drivers (various network and RDMA adapter for example) have a MSI-X > vector layout where most of the vectors are used for I/O queues and should > have CPU affinity assigned to them, but some (usually 1 but sometimes more) > at the beginning or end are used for low-performance admin or configuration > work and should not have any explicit affinity assigned to them. > > This adds a new irq_affinity structure, which will be passed through a > variant of pci_irq_alloc_vectors that allows to specify these > requirements (and is extensible to any future quirks in that area) so that > the core IRQ affinity algorithm can take this quirks into account. > > Signed-off-by: Christogh Hellwig > --- Looks good, Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn -- Johannes Thumshirn Storage jthumshirn@suse.de +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Key fingerprint = EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850