On Tue, 16 Jan 2018, Ming Lei wrote:
> These two patches fixes IO hang issue reported by Laurence.
>
> 84676c1f21 ("genirq/affinity: assign vectors to all possible CPUs")
> may cause one irq vector assigned to all offline CPUs, then this vector
> can't handle irq any more.
>
> The 1st patch moves irq vectors spread into one function, and prepares
> for the fix done in 2nd patch.
>
> The 2nd patch fixes the issue by trying to make sure online CPUs assigned
> to irq vector.
Which means it's completely undoing the intent and mechanism of managed
interrupts. Not going to happen.
Which driver is that which abuses managed interrupts and does not keep its
queues properly sorted on cpu hotplug?
Thanks,
tglx
