Re: [Patch v4 1/3] lib: Restrict cpumask_local_spread to houskeeping CPUs

[Nitesh Lal]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 2:21 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Nitesh,
>
> On Fri, Apr 30 2021 at 12:14, Nitesh Lal wrote:
> > Based on this analysis and the fact that with your re-work the interrupts
> > seems to be naturally spread across the CPUs, will it be safe to revert
> > Jesse's patch
> >
> > e2e64a932 genirq: Set initial affinity in irq_set_affinity_hint()
> >
> > as it overwrites the previously set IRQ affinity mask for some of the
> > devices?
>
> That's a good question. My gut feeling says yes.
>

Jesse do you want to send the revert for the patch?

Also, I think it was you who suggested cc'ing
intel-wired-lan ml as that allows intel folks, to do some initial
testing?
If so, we can do that here (IMHO).

> > IMHO if we think that this patch is still solving some issue other than
> > what Jesse has mentioned then perhaps we should reproduce that and fix it
> > directly from the request_irq code path.
>
> Makes sense.
>
> Thanks,
>
>         tglx
>


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Thanks
Nitesh