From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com,
yong.zhang0@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
arjan@linux.jf.intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irq: Add node_affinity CPU masks for smarter irqbalance hints
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:39:56 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091124.093956.247147202.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259051986.4531.1057.camel@laptop>
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:39:46 +0100
> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 22:07 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> the problem is that there is no way currently that the driver can communicate
>> "I allocated all my metadata on THIS numa node". irqbalance and sysadmins need
>> that to not make really stupid decisions.....
>
> And what exactly is struct device::numa_node good for then?
device->numa_node just says where the device is.
For better performance, it can make sense to, for example, allocate the ring
buffers for different device queues on other NUMA nodes.
That's the kind of thing PJ is trying to make available.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-24 17:39 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
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 [this message]
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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