On 02/25/2014 12:27 PM, Amir Vadai wrote: > On 24/02/14 13:51 -0500, Prarit Bhargava wrote: >> The ixgbe driver assumes that the cpus on a node are mapped 1:1 with the >> indexes into arrays. This is not the case as nodes can contain, for >> example, cpus 0-7, 33-40. >> >> This patch fixes this problem. >> >> Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <[email protected]> >> Cc: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]> >> Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <[email protected]> >> Cc: Bruce Allan <[email protected]> >> Cc: Carolyn Wyborny <[email protected]> >> Cc: Don Skidmore <[email protected]> >> Cc: Greg Rose <[email protected]> >> Cc: Alex Duyck <[email protected]> >> Cc: John Ronciak <[email protected]> >> Cc: Mitch Williams <[email protected]> >> Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Cc: [email protected] >> Cc: [email protected] >> --- > > Hi, > > I'm just about to send tomorrow a patch to add an helper function to > get affinity_hint suggestion by numa_node and ring index. > If you'd like you will be able to use it too here. > > We're still doing internal review on it before sending to the mailing > list, but this will be the declaration of the function: > /* > * netif_set_rx_queue_affinity_hint - set affinity hint of rx queue > * @rxq: index of rx queue > * @numa_node: prefered numa_node > * @affinity_mask: the relevant cpu bit is set according to the policy > * > * This function sets the affinity_mask according to a numa aware policy. > * affinity_mask coulbe used as an affinity hint for the IRQ related of this > * rx queue. > * The policy is to spread rx queues across cores - local cores first. > * > * Returns 0 on success, or a negative error code. > */ > int netif_set_rx_queue_affinity_hint(int rxq, int numa_node, > cpumask_var_t affinity_mask);
I'm going to wait for this patch then. Amir, please cc me. Thanks for the info, P. > > > > Amir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
