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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: maxk@qualcomm.com, menage@google.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IRQ affinities (was: boot cgroup questions)
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 14:14:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210335270.13978.252.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080509070314.f86aece4.pj@sgi.com>

On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 07:03 -0500, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Peter wrote:
> > I see two use-cases:
> > 
> >  - Isolation
> >  - NUMA node devices
> 
> Ok ... so let me propose an entirely different solution.
> 
> No doubt it has some terrible flaw, but I'll just have to
> await your replies to see what that is.
> 
> How about we have:
> 
>  1) Yet another text config file in /etc, this one containing
>     lines having two fields:
> 	* a list of IRQs, and
> 	* a cpumask.
>     This file would specify which CPUs should handle which IRQs.
> 
>  2) A utility that can be run, after changing the above file, 
>     to poke the proper cpumask to each IRQ, as specified in
>     the file.
> 
> (Obligatory "simple" marketing claim: the above requires no
> kernel changes.)
> 
> What am I missing?

Two points:

 - we can't currently set irq affinities for non-existent (aka new) IRQs
 - its a shame to duplicate the masks - most of this information would
also be used in the cpuset structure used to place the tasks.





  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-09 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-12  1:23 boot cgroup questions Max Krasnyansky
2008-03-12  1:27 ` Paul Menage
2008-03-12  2:34   ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-03-12  2:36     ` Paul Menage
2008-03-12  2:53       ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-03-12  3:09         ` Paul Menage
2008-03-12  3:39           ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-03-12  4:59           ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-12 18:24             ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-03-12 18:57               ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-12 19:11                 ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-03-12 19:32                   ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-12 20:08                     ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-03-12 20:37                       ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-12 22:29                         ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-03-12 23:30                           ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-13  0:57                             ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-03-13  7:03                               ` Paul Jackson
2008-04-10 18:03                                 ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-04-14 18:39                                   ` Paul Jackson
2008-05-09 10:45                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-09 11:17                                       ` IRQ affinities (was: boot cgroup questions) Paul Jackson
2008-05-09 11:48                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-09 12:03                                           ` Paul Jackson
2008-05-09 12:14                                             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-05-09 12:36                                               ` Paul Jackson
2008-05-09 17:43                                                 ` Paul Jackson
2008-05-21  1:21                                                 ` IRQ affinities Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-05-21  1:14                                         ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-05-21  4:45                                           ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-21 16:18                                             ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-05-21  6:34                                           ` Paul Jackson
2008-05-21 17:58                                             ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-04-14 18:42                                   ` boot cgroup questions Paul Jackson
2008-03-13  7:12                               ` Paul Jackson
2008-04-10 17:24                                 ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-04-10 17:37                                   ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-12 23:32                           ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-13  0:46                             ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-03-12 19:16             ` Paul Menage
2008-03-12 19:24               ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-12 19:30                 ` Max Krasnyanskiy

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