Re: [PATCH 4/4][RFC v2] x86/apic: Spread the vectors by choosing the idlest CPU

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 11:15 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 12:13:38PM +0800, Yu Chen wrote:
>> I agree, the driver could be rewritten, but it might take some time, so
>> meanwhile I'm looking at also other possible optimization.
>
> Which driver are we talking about anyway?  Let's start looking at it
> and fix the issue there.

As far as I understand, it's already fixed there:

commit 7c9ae7f053e9e896c24fd23595ba369a5fe322e1
Author: Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Jun 20 15:16:53 2017 -0700

    i40e: Fix for trace found with S4 state

    This patch fixes a problem found in systems when entering
    S4 state.  This patch fixes the problem by ensuring that
    the misc vector's IRQ is disabled as well.  Without this
    patch a stack trace can be seen upon entering S4 state.

However this seems like something that should be handled generically
in the irq-core especially since commit c5cb83bb337c
"genirq/cpuhotplug: Handle managed IRQs on CPU hotplug" was headed in
that direction. It's otherwise non-obvious when a driver needs to
release and re-acquire interrupts or be reworked to use managed
interrupts.