Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] PCI: Limit pci_alloc_irq_vectors() to housekeeping CPUs
From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Oct 20 2020 - 03:31:16 EST
On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:00:05AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > So I think it is important to figure out what that driver really wants
> > in the nohz_full case. If it wants to retain N interrupts per CPU, and
> > only reduce the number of CPUs, the proposed interface is wrong.
>
> It wants N interrupts per non-isolated (AKA housekeeping) CPU.
Then the patch is wrong and the interface needs changing from @min_vecs,
@max_vecs to something that expresses the N*nr_cpus relation.