Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] IRQ: IRQ groups for multiqueue devices

[Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>]

On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 21:04 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
[...]
> Talked to Peter about it and we came to the conclusion, that we should
> just provide a callback infrastructure in the irq code which does not
> care about the action behind it. That's going to solve #1,#2,#3,#5,#6
> and parts of #8
> 
> That queue/index map code should move to lib/ or some other
> appropriate place so it can be shared with storage or whatever is
> going to grow multiqueue. comments #4, #7, #8 (s@kernel/irq@lib/@)
> above still apply :)

OK.

> The modification to the genirq code would be based on registering
> 
> struct irq_affinity_callback {
> 	unsigned int irq;
> 	struct kref kref;
> 	struct work work;
> 	void (*callback)(struct irq_affinity_callback *, const cpumask_t *mask);
> 	void (*release)(struct kref *ref);
> };
> 
> for an interrupt via 
> 
> int irq_set_affinity_callback(unsigned int irq,
>     			      struct irq_affinity_callback *cb);
> 
> That function can be called with cb=NULL to remove the callback. if
> cb!=NULL, irq, kref and work are initialized.

When should it be called, relative to {request,free}_irq() and
pci_{disable,enable}_msix()?

[...]
> That allows you to do all kind of magic in thread context, updating
> the queue map, reallocating queue memory when the node affinity
> changes (I know that you want to), go wild.

I definitely don't want to reallocate queues if node affinity of the IRQ
is changed by irqbalance, because this will disrupt traffic.  So
changing the node affinity of queues has to be a separate operation.

> Thoughts ?

This does look like something I can use, thanks.

Ben.

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