Re: [PATCH 0/5] IB/hfi1: sdma engine affinity improvements

Doug Ledford
2016-10-03T14:31:32Z

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On 9/25/2016 10:44 AM, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> This patch series is a set of performance improvements that deal with handling
> the affinity of sdma engines. This allows users more control over which CPU
> cores are used by the driver for sdma engines. It includes a way to dump out the
> current values and a handler for when the user changes irq affinity. The changes
> to sysfs are also documented.
>
> This applies on top of the last series submitted and can be seen in my GitHub:
> https://github.com/ddalessa/kernel/tree/for-4.9

I've taken this. However, it does not escape me that this might have
been more appropriate as part of rdmavt and working with qib in addition
to hfi1. I decided to let it pass as it is because I know the qib
driver is in deep maintenance mode and not active development, but what
about when hfi2 comes about? Just keep that in mind.

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