Messages in this thread | | | From | Nitesh Lal <> | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 2021 08:51:39 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 00/14] genirq: Cleanup the abuse of irq_set_affinity_hint() |
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Hi Martin,
On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 5:16 PM Nitesh Lal <nilal@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 2:30 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > > > Nitesh, > > > > On Mon, Sep 13 2021 at 10:34, Nitesh Lal wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 11:25 AM Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> The drivers currently rely on irq_set_affinity_hint() to either set the > > >> affinity_hint that is consumed by the userspace and/or to enforce a custom > > >> affinity. > > >> > > >> irq_set_affinity_hint() as the name suggests is originally introduced to > > >> only set the affinity_hint to help the userspace in guiding the interrupts > > >> and not the affinity itself. However, since the commit > > >> > > >> e2e64a932556 "genirq: Set initial affinity in irq_set_affinity_hint()" > > > > sorry for ignoring this. It fell through the cracks. > > > No worries, thank you for reviewing. > > > > > > > >> Thomas Gleixner (1): > > >> genirq: Provide new interfaces for affinity hints > > > > Did I actually write this? > > > Yeap, the idea and the initial patch came from you. :) > > > > > > > > Any suggestions on what should be the next steps here? Unfortunately, I haven't > > > been able to get any reviews on the following two patches: > > > be2net: Use irq_update_affinity_hint > > > hinic: Use irq_set_affinity_and_hint > > > > > > One option would be to proceed with the remaining patches and I can try > > > posting these two again when I post patches for the remaining drivers? > > > > The more general question is whether I should queue all the others or > > whether some subsystem would prefer to pull in a tagged commit on top of > > rc1. I'm happy to carry them all of course. > > > > I am fine either way. > In the past, while I was asking for more testing help I was asked if the > SCSI changes are part of Martins's scsi-fixes tree as that's something > Broadcom folks test to check for regression. > So, maybe Martin can pull this up? >
Gentle ping. Any thoughts on the above query?
-- Thanks Nitesh
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