From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/5] genirq: Add IRQ affinity notifiers Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:01:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20110124.150132.183040805.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1295470787.11126.82.camel@bwh-desktop> <1295470904.11126.84.camel@bwh-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com, therbert@google.com To: bhutchings@solarflare.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:42215 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751829Ab1AXXA5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:00:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1295470904.11126.84.camel@bwh-desktop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ben Hutchings Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:01:44 +0000 > When initiating I/O on a multiqueue and multi-IRQ device, we may want > to select a queue for which the response will be handled on the same > or a nearby CPU. This requires a reverse-map of IRQ affinity. Add a > notification mechanism to support this. > > This is based closely on work by Thomas Gleixner . > > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings > --- > Thomas, I hope this answers all your comments. If you are happy with > this, can it go into net-next-2.6 so the rest of this series can get > into 2.6.39? I've pulled from Thomas's tree to get this commit into net-next-2.6, thanks.