Normally the tilegx networking shim sends irqs to all the cores to distribute the load of processing incoming-packet interrupts, so that you can get to multiple Gb's of traffic inbound.
However, in nohz_full mode we don't want to interrupt the nohz_full cores by default, so we limit the set of cores we use to only the online housekeeping cores. To make client code easier to read, we introduce a new nohz_full accessor, housekeeping_cpumask(), which returns a pointer to the housekeeping_mask if nohz_full is enabled, and otherwise returns the cpu_possible_mask. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@ezchip.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilegx.c | 4 +++- include/linux/tick.h | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilegx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilegx.c index a3f7610002aa..0a15acc075b3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilegx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilegx.c @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ #include <linux/tcp.h> #include <linux/net_tstamp.h> #include <linux/ptp_clock_kernel.h> +#include <linux/tick.h> #include <asm/checksum.h> #include <asm/homecache.h> @@ -2273,7 +2274,8 @@ static int __init tile_net_init_module(void) tile_net_dev_init(name, mac); if (!network_cpus_init()) - network_cpus_map = *cpu_online_mask; + cpumask_and(&network_cpus_map, housekeeping_cpumask(), + cpu_online_mask); return 0; } diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h index 3741ba1a652c..d3b00f0b2221 100644 --- a/include/linux/tick.h +++ b/include/linux/tick.h @@ -160,6 +160,15 @@ static inline void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void) { } static inline void __tick_nohz_task_switch(struct task_struct *tsk) { } #endif +static inline const struct cpumask *housekeeping_cpumask(void) +{ +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL + if (tick_nohz_full_enabled()) + return housekeeping_mask; +#endif + return cpu_possible_mask; +} + static inline bool is_housekeeping_cpu(int cpu) { #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL -- 2.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html