From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V6 0/2] cpumask,net: Affinity hint helper function Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 19:17:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20140601.191737.1821014891784987464.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1401029247-15196-1-git-send-email-amirv@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ogerlitz@mellanox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, yevgenyp@mellanox.com, yuvala@mellanox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: amirv@mellanox.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:55355 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752438AbaFBCRj (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2014 22:17:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1401029247-15196-1-git-send-email-amirv@mellanox.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Amir Vadai 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.