1. 02 Jun, 2014 2 commits
    • Yuval Atias's avatar
      net/mlx4_en: Use affinity hint · 70a640d0
      Yuval Atias authored
      The “affinity hint” mechanism is used by the user space
      daemon, irqbalancer, to indicate a preferred CPU mask for irqs.
      Irqbalancer can use this hint to balance the irqs between the
      cpus indicated by the mask.
      
      We wish the HCA to preferentially map the IRQs it uses to numa cores
      close to it.  To accomplish this, we use cpumask_set_cpu_local_first(), that
      sets the affinity hint according the following policy:
      First it maps IRQs to “close” numa cores.  If these are exhausted, the
      remaining IRQs are mapped to “far” numa cores.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarYuval Atias <yuvala@mellanox.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAmir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      70a640d0
    • Amir Vadai's avatar
      cpumask: Utility function to set n'th cpu - local cpu first · c8865b64
      Amir Vadai authored
      This function sets the n'th cpu - local cpu's first.
      For example: in a 16 cores server with even cpu's local, will get the
      following values:
      cpumask_set_cpu_local_first(0, numa, cpumask) => cpu 0 is set
      cpumask_set_cpu_local_first(1, numa, cpumask) => cpu 2 is set
      ...
      cpumask_set_cpu_local_first(7, numa, cpumask) => cpu 14 is set
      cpumask_set_cpu_local_first(8, numa, cpumask) => cpu 1 is set
      cpumask_set_cpu_local_first(9, numa, cpumask) => cpu 3 is set
      ...
      cpumask_set_cpu_local_first(15, numa, cpumask) => cpu 15 is set
      
      Curently this function will be used by multi queue networking devices to
      calculate the irq affinity mask, such that as many local cpu's as
      possible will be utilized to handle the mq device irq's.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAmir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      c8865b64
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