From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Cc: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"arjan@linux.jf.intel.com" <arjan@linux.jf.intel.com>,
"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irq: Add node_affinity CPU masks for smarter irqbalance hints
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:08:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1259053736.4531.1097.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259053156.2631.21.camel@ppwaskie-mobl2>
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 00:59 -0800, Peter P Waskiewicz Jr wrote:
> > This all sounds backwards.. we've got a perfectly functional interface
> > for affinity -- which people object to being used for some reason. So
> > you add another interface on top, and that is ok?
> >
>
> But it's not functional. If I set the affinity in smp_affinity, then
> irqbalance will override it 10 seconds later.
And here I was thinking the kernel round-robins IRQ delivery on the mask
specified there. Are you talking about some daft userspace thing that
writes into the irq smp_affinity to effect irq balancing?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-24 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-23 6:46 [PATCH] irq: Add node_affinity CPU masks for smarter irqbalance hints Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-23 7:32 ` Yong Zhang
2009-11-23 9:36 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-23 10:21 ` ixgbe question Eric Dumazet
2009-11-23 10:30 ` Badalian Vyacheslav
2009-11-23 10:34 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2009-11-23 10:37 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-23 14:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-23 21:26 ` David Miller
2009-11-23 14:10 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2009-11-23 14:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-23 18:30 ` robert
2009-11-23 16:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-23 20:54 ` robert
2009-11-23 21:28 ` David Miller
2009-11-23 22:14 ` Robert Olsson
2009-11-23 23:28 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2009-11-23 23:44 ` David Miller
2009-11-24 7:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-24 8:46 ` Badalian Vyacheslav
2009-11-24 9:07 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-24 9:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-24 10:06 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-24 11:37 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] ixgbe: Fix TX stats accounting Eric Dumazet
2009-11-24 13:23 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-25 7:38 ` Jeff Kirsher
2009-11-25 9:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-25 9:38 ` Jeff Kirsher
2009-11-24 13:14 ` ixgbe question John Fastabend
2009-11-29 8:18 ` David Miller
2009-11-30 13:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-30 20:20 ` John Fastabend
2009-11-26 14:10 ` Badalian Vyacheslav
2009-11-23 17:05 ` [PATCH] irq: Add node_affinity CPU masks for smarter irqbalance hints Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-23 23:32 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2009-11-24 8:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-24 8:59 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-24 9:08 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-11-24 9:15 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-24 14:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-24 9:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-24 10:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-11-24 17:55 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-25 11:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-24 6:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-24 8:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-24 14:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-24 17:39 ` David Miller
2009-11-24 17:56 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-24 18:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-24 18:33 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-24 19:01 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-24 19:53 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-24 18:54 ` David Miller
2009-11-24 18:58 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-24 20:35 ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-24 20:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-25 10:30 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-25 10:37 ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-25 11:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-25 11:50 ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-26 11:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-24 5:17 ` Yong Zhang
2009-11-24 8:39 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
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2009-11-23 7:12 Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
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