[PATCH 08/13] pci: spread interrupt vectors in pci_alloc_irq_vectors

Alexander Gordeev agordeev at redhat.com
Mon Jul 11 23:49:43 PDT 2016


On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 05:57:51AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 01:05:01PM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> > irq_create_affinity_mask() bails out with no affinity in case of single
> > vector, but alloc_descs() (see below (*)) assigns the whole affinity
> > mask. It should be consistent instead.
> 
> I don't understand the comment.  If we only have one vector (of any
> kinds) there is no need to create an affinity mask, we'll leave the
> interrupt to the existing irq balancing code.

I got impression the affinity mask is assigned differently i.e. for
single MSI mode vs legacy mode. But I might be wrong here - I have to
look into the code again. Anyway, if it is the case it could be
addressed afterwards IMHO.



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