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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next V6 0/2] cpumask,net: Affinity hint helper function
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From: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 17:47:25 +0300

> This patchset will set affinity hint to influence IRQs to be allocated on the
> same NUMA node as the one where the card resides. As discussed in
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg271497.html
>
> If the number of IRQs allocated is greater than the number of local NUMA cores, all
> local cores will be used first, and the rest of the IRQs will be on a remote
> NUMA node.
> If no NUMA support - IRQ's and cores will be mapped 1:1
>
> Since the utility function to calculate the mapping could be useful in other mq
> drivers in the kernel, it was added to cpumask.[ch]
>
> This patchset was tested and applied on top of net-next since the first
> consumer is a network device (mlx4_en). Over commit 506724c: "tg3: Override
> clock, link aware and link idle mode during NVRAM dump"
>
> I couldn't find a maintainer for cpumask.c, so only added the kernel mailing
> list

Applied to net-next, thanks.


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