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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/5] genirq: Add IRQ affinity notifiers
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:19:04 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1101192214350.3211@localhost6.localdomain6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295470904.11126.84.camel@bwh-desktop>

B1;2401;0cOn Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> When initiating I/O on a multiqueue and multi-IRQ device, we may want
> to select a queue for which the response will be handled on the same
> or a nearby CPU.  This requires a reverse-map of IRQ affinity.  Add a
> notification mechanism to support this.
> 
> This is based closely on work by Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
> ---
> Thomas, I hope this answers all your comments.  If you are happy with
> this, can it go into net-next-2.6 so the rest of this series can get
> into 2.6.39?

Looks good, but I prefer to take it via the tip/genirq branch as I
have other changes pending to that code. I'll put this into a separate
branch based on rc1 as a single commit so Dave can pull that branch
into netdev. Dave ?

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-19 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-19 20:59 [PATCH net-next-2.6 0/5] RFS hardware acceleration (v3) Ben Hutchings
2011-01-19 21:01 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/5] genirq: Add IRQ affinity notifiers Ben Hutchings
2011-01-19 21:19   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2011-01-19 21:27     ` David Miller
2011-01-19 21:39       ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-01-19 21:48         ` David Miller
2011-01-19 21:53           ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-01-22 16:38           ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-02-07 20:44             ` Ben Hutchings
2011-01-24 23:01   ` David Miller
2011-01-19 21:03 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 2/5] lib: cpu_rmap: CPU affinity reverse-mapping Ben Hutchings
2011-01-24 23:01   ` David Miller
2011-01-19 21:03 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 3/5] net: RPS: Enable hardware acceleration of RFS Ben Hutchings
2011-01-24 23:01   ` David Miller
2011-01-19 21:06 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 4/5] sfc: Limit filter search depth further for performance hints (i.e. RFS) Ben Hutchings
2011-01-24 23:02   ` David Miller
2011-01-19 21:06 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 5/5] sfc: Implement hardware acceleration of RFS Ben Hutchings

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