Re: [RFC net-next 0/6] Cleanup IRQ affinity checks in several drivers

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Wed Aug 14 2024 - 20:20:57 EST


On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:01:40 +0100 Joe Damato wrote:
> If it is, then the only option is to have the drivers pass in their
> IRQ affinity masks, as Stanislav suggested, to avoid adding that
> call to the hot path.
>
> If not, then the IRQ from napi_struct can be used and the affinity
> mask can be generated on every napi poll. i40e/gve/iavf would need
> calls to netif_napi_set_irq to set the IRQ mapping, which seems to
> be straightforward.

It's a bit sad to have the generic solution blocked.
cpu_rmap_update() is exported. Maybe we can call it from our notifier?
rmap lives in struct net_device