Re: [PATCH v3 13/14] net/mlx5: Use irq_set_affinity_and_hint

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 05:15:01PM -0400, Nitesh Narayan Lal wrote:
> The driver uses irq_set_affinity_hint() to update the affinity_hint mask
> that is consumed by the userspace to distribute the interrupts and to apply
> the provided mask as the affinity for the mlx5 interrupts. However,
> irq_set_affinity_hint() applying the provided cpumask as an affinity for
> the interrupt is an undocumented side effect.
> 
> To remove this side effect irq_set_affinity_hint() has been marked
> as deprecated and new interfaces have been introduced. Hence, replace the
> irq_set_affinity_hint() with the new interface irq_set_affinity_and_hint()
> where the provided mask needs to be applied as the affinity and
> affinity_hint pointer needs to be set and replace with
> irq_update_affinity_hint() where only affinity_hint needs to be updated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pci_irq.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 

Thanks,
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>