Re: [PATCH] nvme: use the correct msix vector for each queue

From: Dan Streetman
Date: Wed Dec 07 2016 - 17:36:47 EST


On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 05:03:48PM -0500, Dan Streetman wrote:
>> Change each queue's cq_vector to match its qid, instead of qid - 1.
>>
>> The first queue is always the admin queue, and the remaining queues are
>> I/O queues. The interrupt vectors they use are all in the same array,
>> however, the vector indexes for the admin and I/O queues are setup
>> differently; the admin queue's cq_vector is manually set to 0, while
>> each I/O queue's cq_vector is set to qid - 1. Since the admin queue
>> is qid 0, and the I/O queues start at qid 1, using qid - 1 is wrong for the
>> I/O queues, as it makes the first I/O queue (qid 1) share the vector from
>> the admin queue (qid 0), and no queue uses the last interrupt vector.
>> Instead, each I/O queue should set their cq_vector to qid.
>
> pci_alloc_irq_vectors doesn't know you intend to make the first
> vector special, so it's going to come up with a CPU affinity from
> blk_mq_pci_map_queues that clashes with what you've programmed in the
> IO completion queues.

I don't follow. You're saying you mean to share cq_vector 0 between
the admin queue and io queue 1?