Re: 4.13.0-rc4 sparc64: can't allocate MSI-X affinity masks for 2 vectors

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Aug 22 2017 - 12:46:05 EST


From: Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 19:33:55 +0300 (EEST)

>> > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 01:35:49PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> >> I ask because the commit log message indicates that this failure is
>> >> not expected to ever happen on SMP.
>> >
>> > I fear my commit message (but not the code) might be wrong.
>> > irq_create_affinity_masks can return NULL any time we don't have any
>> > affinity masks. I've already had a discussion about this elsewhere
>> > with Bjorn, and I suspect we need to kill the warning or move it
>> > to irq_create_affinity_masks only for genuine failure cases.
>>
>> This is a rather large machine with 64 or more cpus and several NUMA
>> nodes. Why wouldn't there be any affinity masks available?
>
> T5120 with 1 slot and 32 threads total. I have not configured any NUM on
> it is there any reason for that?

Ok 32 cpus and 1 NUMA node, my bad :-)