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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/5] genirq: Add IRQ affinity notifiers
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:19:04 +0100 (CET)
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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