Re: [PATCH 0/4] irq: fix support for allocating sets of IRQs

[Ming Lei]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 01:02:18PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Jens,
> 
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2018, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > On 11/2/18 8:59 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > Hi Jens,
> > > 
> > > As I mentioned, there are at least two issues in the patch of '
> > > irq: add support for allocating (and affinitizing) sets of IRQs':
> > > 
> > > 1) it is wrong to pass 'mask + usedvec' to irq_build_affinity_masks()
> > > 
> > > 2) we should spread all possible CPUs in 2-stage way on each set of IRQs
> > > 
> > > The fix isn't trivial, and I introduce two extra patches as preparation,
> > > then the implementation can be more clean.
> > > 
> > > The patchset is against mq-maps branch of block tree, feel free to
> > > integrate into the whole patchset of multiple queue maps.
> > 
> > Thanks Ming, I ran this through my testing, and I end up with the
> > same maps and affinities for all the cases I cared about. I'm going
> > to drop my initial version, and add the three.
> 
> So I assume, that I can pick up Mings series instead.
> 
> There is another patch pending affecting the irq affinity spreading. Can
> you folks please have a look at it?
> 
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181102180248.13583-1-longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

This patch looks fine.

It ensures that all CPUs are covered in irq's affinity when required
vector number is <= nr_numa_nodes.

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>


Thanks,
Ming