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Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe, don't assume mapping of numa node cpus
From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit () redhat ! com>
Date: 2014-02-25 17:43:05
Message-ID: 530CD629.2030607 () redhat ! com
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On 02/25/2014 12:27 PM, Amir Vadai wrote:
> On 24/02/14 13:51 -0500, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>> The ixgbe driver assumes that the cpus on a node are mapped 1:1 with the
>> indexes into arrays. This is not the case as nodes can contain, for
>> example, cpus 0-7, 33-40.
>>
>> This patch fixes this problem.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
>> Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
>> Cc: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
>> Cc: Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@intel.com>
>> Cc: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
>> Cc: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
>> Cc: Alex Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
>> Cc: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
>> Cc: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
>> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
>> Cc: nhorman@redhat.com
>> Cc: agospoda@redhat.com
>> Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>> ---
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm just about to send tomorrow a patch to add an helper function to
> get affinity_hint suggestion by numa_node and ring index.
> If you'd like you will be able to use it too here.
>
> We're still doing internal review on it before sending to the mailing
> list, but this will be the declaration of the function:
> /*
> * netif_set_rx_queue_affinity_hint - set affinity hint of rx queue
> * @rxq: index of rx queue
> * @numa_node: prefered numa_node
> * @affinity_mask: the relevant cpu bit is set according to the policy
> *
> * This function sets the affinity_mask according to a numa aware policy.
> * affinity_mask coulbe used as an affinity hint for the IRQ related of this
> * rx queue.
> * The policy is to spread rx queues across cores - local cores first.
> *
> * Returns 0 on success, or a negative error code.
> */
> int netif_set_rx_queue_affinity_hint(int rxq, int numa_node,
> cpumask_var_t affinity_mask);
I'm going to wait for this patch then. Amir, please cc me.
Thanks for the info,
P.
>
>
>
> Amir
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