Re: [PATCH net-next V6 0/2] cpumask,net: Affinity hint helper function

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 17:47:25 +0300

> This patchset will set affinity hint to influence IRQs to be allocated on the
> same NUMA node as the one where the card resides. As discussed in
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg271497.html
> 
> If the number of IRQs allocated is greater than the number of local NUMA cores, all
> local cores will be used first, and the rest of the IRQs will be on a remote
> NUMA node.
> If no NUMA support - IRQ's and cores will be mapped 1:1
> 
> Since the utility function to calculate the mapping could be useful in other mq
> drivers in the kernel, it was added to cpumask.[ch]
> 
> This patchset was tested and applied on top of net-next since the first
> consumer is a network device (mlx4_en).  Over commit 506724c: "tg3: Override
> clock, link aware and link idle mode during NVRAM dump"
> 
> I couldn't find a maintainer for cpumask.c, so only added the kernel mailing
> list

Applied to net-next, thanks.