Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] PCI: Limit pci_alloc_irq_vectors() to housekeeping CPUs

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Sep 29 2020 - 13:47:06 EST


On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 04:59:31PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> [to: Christoph in case he has comments, since I think he wrote this code]

I think I actually suggested this a few iterations back.

> > + hk_cpus = housekeeping_num_online_cpus(HK_FLAG_MANAGED_IRQ);
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * If we have isolated CPUs for use by real-time tasks, to keep the
> > + * latency overhead to a minimum, device-specific IRQ vectors are moved
> > + * to the housekeeping CPUs from the userspace by changing their
> > + * affinity mask. Limit the vector usage to keep housekeeping CPUs from
> > + * running out of IRQ vectors.
> > + */
> > + if (hk_cpus < num_online_cpus()) {

I woukd have moved the assignment to hk_cpus below the comment and
just above the if, but that is really just a minor style preference.

Otherwise this looks good:

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>