Re: [PATCH RFC 1/1] genirq: Make threaded handler use irq affinity for managed interrupt

John Garry
2019-12-11T09:41:10Z

On 10/12/2019 18:32, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>> The ITS code will make the lowest online CPU in the affinity mask
>>>> the
>>>> target CPU for the interrupt, which may result in some CPUs
>>>> handling
>>>> so many interrupts.
>>> If what you want is for the*default* affinity to be spread around,
>>> that should be achieved pretty easily. Let me have a think about how
>>> to do that.
>> Cool, I anticipate that it should help my case.
>>
>> I can also seek out some NVMe cards to see how it would help a more
>> "generic" scenario.
> Can you give the following a go? It probably has all kind of warts on
> top of the quality debug information, but I managed to get my D05 and
> a couple of guests to boot with it. It will probably eat your data,
> so use caution!;-)
>

Hi Marc,

Ok, we'll give it a spin.

Thanks,
John

> Thanks,
>
> M.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> index e05673bcd52b..301ee3bc0602 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> @@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ static DEFINE_IDA(its_vpeid_ida);