From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: amirv@mellanox.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, yevgenyp@mellanox.com,
ogerlitz@mellanox.com, prarit@redhat.com, gvaradar@cisco.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V4 1/2] net: Utility function to get affinity_hint by policy
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:04:08 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140310.160408.1561130723524404573.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1394350749-30522-2-git-send-email-amirv@mellanox.com>
From: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 09:39:08 +0200
> This function sets the affinity_mask according to a numa aware policy.
> affinity_mask could be used as an affinity hint for the IRQ related to
> this rx queue.
> Current policy is to spread rx queues accross cores - local cores first.
> It could be extended in the future.
>
> CC: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
> CC: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <gvaradar@cisco.com>
> Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
I hate to delay this even more, but I think Ben is right, this is really
a generic function that probably belongs under kernel/ The block layer
folks to multiqueue things on some devices, and they therefore could find
it useful as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-10 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-09 7:39 [PATCH net-next V4 0/2] net: Affinity hint helper function Amir Vadai
2014-03-09 7:39 ` [PATCH net-next V4 1/2] net: Utility function to get affinity_hint by policy Amir Vadai
2014-03-09 21:10 ` Ben Hutchings
2014-03-10 20:04 ` David Miller [this message]
2014-03-09 7:39 ` [PATCH net-next V4 2/2] net/mlx4_en: Use affinity hint Amir Vadai
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