Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 27/30] xen/events: Only force affinity mask for percpu interrupts | From | boris.ostrovsky@oracle ... | Date | Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:20:46 -0500 |
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On 12/10/20 2:26 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > All event channel setups bind the interrupt on CPU0 or the target CPU for > percpu interrupts and overwrite the affinity mask with the corresponding > cpumask. That does not make sense. > > The XEN implementation of irqchip::irq_set_affinity() already picks a > single target CPU out of the affinity mask and the actual target is stored > in the effective CPU mask, so destroying the user chosen affinity mask > which might contain more than one CPU is wrong. > > Change the implementation so that the channel is bound to CPU0 at the XEN > level and leave the affinity mask alone. At startup of the interrupt > affinity will be assigned out of the affinity mask and the XEN binding will > be updated.
If that's the case then I wonder whether we need this call at all and instead bind at startup time.
-boris
> Only keep the enforcement for real percpu interrupts.
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