Re: [PATCH] Revert "genirq/affinity: assign vectors to all possible CPUs"

From: Paul Menzel
Date: Mon Oct 01 2018 - 08:43:41 EST


Dear Christoph,


On 10/01/18 14:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 02:33:07PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:28:45 +0200
>>
>> This reverts commit ef86f3a72adb8a7931f67335560740a7ad696d1d.
>
> This seems rather odd. If at all you'd revert the patch adding the
> PCI_IRQ_AFFINITY to aacraid, not core infrastructure.

Thank you for the suggestion, but that flag was added in 2016
to the aacraid driver.

> commit 0910d8bbdd99856af1394d3d8830955abdefee4a
> Author: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Nov 8 08:11:30 2016 +0100
>
> scsi: aacraid: switch to pci_alloc_irq_vectors
>
> Use pci_alloc_irq_vectors and drop the hand-crafted interrupt affinity
> routines.

So what would happen, if `PCI_IRQ_AFFINITY` was removed? Will the
system still work with the same performance?

As far as I understood, the no regression policy is there for
exactly that reason, and it shouldnât matter if itâs core
infrastructure or not. As written, I have no idea, and just know
reverting the commit in question fixes the problem here. So Iâll
gladly test other solutions to fix this issue.


Kind regards,

Paul

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