From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Horman Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] irq: Add registered affinity guidance infrastructure Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:11:48 -0400 Message-ID: <20110416021148.GC2200@neilslaptop.think-freely.org> References: <1302898677-3833-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> <1302898677-3833-2-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, nhorman , Dimitris Michailidis , David Howells , Eric Dumazet , Tom Herbert To: Thomas Gleixner Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:52732 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755492Ab1DPCMK (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:12:10 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 02:22:58AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Neil Horman wrote: > > > From: nhorman > > > > This patch adds the needed data to the irq_desc struct, as well as the needed > > API calls to allow the requester of an irq to register a handler function to > > determine the affinity_hint of that irq when queried from user space. > > This changelog simply sucks. It does not explain the rationale for > this churn at all. > It seems pretty clear to me. It allows a common function to update the value of affinity_hint when its queried. > Which problem is it solving? > Why are the current interfaces not sufficient? Did you read the initial post that I sent with it? Apparently not. Apologies, its seems my git-send-email didn't cc everyone I expected it to: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=130291921026187&w=2 I'll skip the rest of your your email, and just try to turn some of your rant into something more acceptible to you. Neil