From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V7 0/2] cpumask,net: affinity hint helper function Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:59:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20140611.145938.2160468514837164249.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1402298679-22038-1-git-send-email-amirv@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ogerlitz@mellanox.com, yevgenyp@mellanox.com, yuvala@mellanox.com To: amirv@mellanox.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:47431 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752199AbaFKV7m (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:59:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1402298679-22038-1-git-send-email-amirv@mellanox.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Amir Vadai Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 10:24:37 +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 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 fff1f59 "mac802154: > llsec: add forgotten list_del_rcu in key removal" Series applied, thanks.