Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvme-pci: allow unmanaged interrupts

Keith Busch
2024-05-10T16:20:05Z

On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 05:10:47PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 07:14:59AM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> > From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
> >
> > Some people _really_ want to control their interrupt affinity.
>
> So let them argue why. I'd rather have a really, really, really
> good argument for this crap, and I'd like to hear it from the horses
> mouth.

It's just prioritizing predictable user task scheduling for a subset of
CPUs instead of having consistently better storage performance.

We already have "isolcpus=managed_irq," parameter to prevent managed
interrupts from running on a subset of CPUs, so the use case is already
kind of supported. The problem with that parameter is it is a no-op if
the starting affinity spread contains only isolated CPUs.