From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/3] irq: Export irq_set_affinity() for drivers Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:35:54 +0100 Message-ID: <1256139354.2859.2.camel@achroite> References: <20091021022626.32449.73883.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, gospo@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Peter P Waskiewicz Jr To: Jeff Kirsher Return-path: Received: from exchange.solarflare.com ([216.237.3.220]:56140 "EHLO exchange.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753948AbZJUPfw (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:35:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20091021022626.32449.73883.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 19:26 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > From: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr > > This patch allows drivers to specify an IRQ affinity mask for > their respective interrupt sources. This is very useful on > network adapters using MSI-X, where aligning network flows > linearly to CPUs greatly improves efficiency of the network > stack. [...] Since this is not networking-specific, I think it needs to go to linux-kernel as well. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.