Messages in this thread | | | From | Jakub Sitnicki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio_pci: Don't make an extra copy of cpu affinity mask | Date | Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:52:45 +0200 |
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 08:55 PM +08, Xuan Zhuo wrote: > On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:16:24 +0200, Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com> wrote: >> Since commit 19e226e8cc5d ("virtio: Make vp_set_vq_affinity() take a >> mask.") it is actually not needed to have a local copy of the cpu mask. > > > Could you give more info to prove this? > > If you are right, I think you should delete all code about msix_affinity_masks?
Sorry for the late reply. I've been away.
It looks that msix_affinity_masks became unused - intentionally - in 2015, after commit 210d150e1f5d ("virtio_pci: Clear stale cpumask when setting irq affinity") [1].
Originally introduced in 2012 in commit 75a0a52be3c2 ("virtio: introduce an API to set affinity for a virtqueue") [2]. As I understand, it was meant to make it possible to set VQ affinity to more than once CPU.
Now that we can pass a CPU mask, listing all CPUs, to set_vq_affinity, msix_affinity_masks seems to no longer have a purpose.
So, IMO, you're right. We can remove it.
Happy to do that in a follow up series.
That is - if you're okay with these two patches in the current form.
Thanks for reviewing.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=210d150e1f5da506875e376422ba31ead2d49621 [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=75a0a52be3c27b58654fbed2c8f2ff401482b9a4
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