[PATCH 3/6] net: thunderx: Assign affinity hints to vf's interrupts

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Mon Feb 8 04:07:49 PST 2016


From: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham at cavium.com>

This affinity hint can be used by user space irqbalance tool to set
preferred CPU mask for irqs registered by this VF. Irqbalance needs
to be in 'exact' mode to set irq affinity same as indicated by
affinity hint.

Signed-off-by: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham at cavium.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic.h        |    1 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c |   37 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic.h
index 8af363a..00cc915 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic.h
@@ -309,6 +309,7 @@ struct nicvf {
 	struct msix_entry	msix_entries[NIC_VF_MSIX_VECTORS];
 	char			irq_name[NIC_VF_MSIX_VECTORS][20];
 	bool			irq_allocated[NIC_VF_MSIX_VECTORS];
+	cpumask_var_t		affinity_mask[NIC_VF_MSIX_VECTORS];
 
 	/* VF <-> PF mailbox communication */
 	bool			pf_acked;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
index c6f146c..90ce93e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
@@ -899,6 +899,31 @@ static void nicvf_disable_msix(struct nicvf *nic)
 	}
 }
 
+static void nicvf_set_irq_affinity(struct nicvf *nic)
+{
+	int vec, cpu;
+	int irqnum;
+
+	for (vec = 0; vec < nic->num_vec; vec++) {
+		if (!nic->irq_allocated[vec])
+			continue;
+
+		if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&nic->affinity_mask[vec], GFP_KERNEL))
+			return;
+		 /* CQ interrupts */
+		if (vec < NICVF_INTR_ID_SQ)
+			/* Leave CPU0 for RBDR and other interrupts */
+			cpu = nicvf_netdev_qidx(nic, vec) + 1;
+		else
+			cpu = 0;
+
+		cpumask_set_cpu(cpumask_local_spread(cpu, nic->node),
+				nic->affinity_mask[vec]);
+		irqnum = nic->msix_entries[vec].vector;
+		irq_set_affinity_hint(irqnum, nic->affinity_mask[vec]);
+	}
+}
+
 static int nicvf_register_interrupts(struct nicvf *nic)
 {
 	int irq, ret = 0;
@@ -944,8 +969,13 @@ static int nicvf_register_interrupts(struct nicvf *nic)
 	ret = request_irq(nic->msix_entries[irq].vector,
 			  nicvf_qs_err_intr_handler,
 			  0, nic->irq_name[irq], nic);
-	if (!ret)
-		nic->irq_allocated[irq] = true;
+	if (ret)
+		goto err;
+
+	nic->irq_allocated[irq] = true;
+
+	/* Set IRQ affinities */
+	nicvf_set_irq_affinity(nic);
 
 err:
 	if (ret)
@@ -963,6 +993,9 @@ static void nicvf_unregister_interrupts(struct nicvf *nic)
 		if (!nic->irq_allocated[irq])
 			continue;
 
+		irq_set_affinity_hint(nic->msix_entries[irq].vector, NULL);
+		free_cpumask_var(nic->affinity_mask[irq]);
+
 		if (irq < NICVF_INTR_ID_SQ)
 			free_irq(nic->msix_entries[irq].vector, nic->napi[irq]);
 		else
-- 
1.7.1




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