Re: [PATCH] genirq/affinity: fix node generation from cpumask

Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2016-12-15T01:44:20Z

"Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> Commit 34c3d9819fda ("genirq/affinity: Provide smarter irq spreading
> infrastructure") introduced a better IRQ spreading mechanism, taking
> account of the available NUMA nodes in the machine.
>
> Problem is that the algorithm of retrieving the nodemask iterates
> "linearly" based on the number of online nodes - some architectures
> present non-linear node distribution among the nodemask, like PowerPC.
> If this is the case, the algorithm lead to a wrong node count number
> and therefore to a bad/incomplete IRQ affinity distribution.
>
> For example, this problem were found in a machine with 128 CPUs and two
> nodes, namely nodes 0 and 8 (instead of 0 and 1, if it was linearly
> distributed). This led to a wrong affinity distribution which then led to
> a bad mq allocation for nvme driver.
>
> Finally, we take the opportunity to fix a comment regarding the affinity
> distribution when we have _more_ nodes than vectors.

Thanks for taking care of this so quickly, Guilherme.

Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@krisman.be>

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