Re: [PATCH V3 0/4] genirq/affinity: irq vector spread among online CPUs as far as possible

From: Artem Bityutskiy
Date: Wed Mar 28 2018 - 02:16:02 EST


On Mon, 2018-03-26 at 10:39 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Lo! Your friendly Linux regression tracker here ;-)
>
> On 08.03.2018 14:18, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 18:53 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > This patchset tries to spread among online CPUs as far as possible, so
> > > that we can avoid to allocate too less irq vectors with online CPUs
> > > mapped.
> >
> > [â]
> > Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519311270.2535.53.camel@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> > this patchset fixes the v4.16-rcX regression that I reported few weeks
> > ago. I applied it and verified that Dell R640 server that I mentioned
> > in the bug report boots up and the disk works.
>
> Artem (or anyone else), what's the status here? I have this on my list
> of regressions, but it looks like there wasn't any progress in the past
> week. Or was it discussed somewhere else or even fixed in the meantime
> and I missed it? Ciao, Thorsten

Hi, it is not fixed in upstream.

I got an e-mail from James that the fixes are in his tree in the
"fixes" branch. There is no word about when it will be merged. There is
also no stable tag.