>
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, Kashyap Desai wrote:
> > I am using " for-4.19/block " and this particular patch "a0c9259
> > irq/matrix: Spread interrupts on allocation" is included.
>
> Can you please try against 4.19-rc2 or later?
>
> > I can see that 16 extra reply queues via pre_vectors are still
assigned to
> > CPU 0 (effective affinity ).
> >
> > irq 33, cpu list 0-71
>
> The cpu list is irrelevant because that's the allowed affinity mask. The
> effective one is what counts.
>
> > # cat /sys/kernel/debug/irq/irqs/34
> > node: 0
> > affinity: 0-71
> > effectiv: 0
>
> So if all 16 have their effective affinity set to CPU0 then that's
strange
> at least.
>
> Can you please provide the output of
> /sys/kernel/debug/irq/domains/VECTOR ?
I tried 4.19-rc2. Same behavior as I posted earlier. All 16 pre_vector irq
has effective CPU = 0.
Here is output of "/sys/kernel/debug/irq/domains/VECTOR"
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/irq/domains/VECTOR
name: VECTOR
size: 0
mapped: 360
flags: 0x00000041
Online bitmaps: 72
Global available: 13062
Global reserved: 86
Total allocated: 274
System: 43: 0-19,32,50,128,236-255
| CPU | avl | man | act | vectors
0 169 17 32 33-49,51-65
1 181 17 4 33,36,52-53
2 181 17 4 33-36
3 181 17 4 33-34,52-53
4 181 17 4 33,35,53-54
5 181 17 4 33,35-36,54
6 182 17 3 33,35-36
7 182 17 3 33-34,36
8 182 17 3 34-35,53
9 181 17 4 33-34,52-53
10 182 17 3 34,36,53
11 182 17 3 34-35,54
12 182 17 3 33-34,53
13 182 17 3 33,37,55
14 181 17 4 33-36
15 181 17 4 33,35-36,54
16 181 17 4 33,35,53-54
17 182 17 3 33,36-37
18 181 17 4 33,36,54-55
19 181 17 4 33,35-36,54
20 181 17 4 33,35-37
21 180 17 5 33,35,37,55-56
22 181 17 4 33-36
23 181 17 4 33,35,37,55
24 180 17 5 33-36,54
25 181 17 4 33-36
26 181 17 4 33-35,54
27 181 17 4 34-36,54
28 181 17 4 33-35,53
29 182 17 3 34-35,53
30 182 17 3 33-35
31 181 17 4 34-36,54
32 182 17 3 33-34,53
33 182 17 3 34-35,53
34 182 17 3 33-34,53
35 182 17 3 34-36
36 182 17 3 33-34,53
37 181 17 4 33,35,52-53
38 182 17 3 34-35,53
39 182 17 3 34,52-53
40 182 17 3 33-35
41 182 17 3 34-35,53
42 182 17 3 33-35
43 182 17 3 34,52-53
44 182 17 3 33-34,53
45 182 17 3 34-35,53
46 182 17 3 34,36,54
47 182 17 3 33-34,52
48 182 17 3 34,36,54
49 182 17 3 33,51-52
50 181 17 4 33-36
51 182 17 3 33-35
52 182 17 3 33-35
53 182 17 3 34-35,53
54 182 17 3 33-34,53
55 182 17 3 34-36
56 181 17 4 33-35,53
57 182 17 3 34-36
58 182 17 3 33-34,53
59 181 17 4 33-35,53
60 181 17 4 33-35,53
61 182 17 3 33-34,53
62 182 17 3 33-35
63 182 17 3 34-36
64 182 17 3 33-34,54
65 181 17 4 33-35,53
66 182 17 3 33-34,54
67 182 17 3 34-36
68 182 17 3 33-34,54
69 182 17 3 34,36,54
70 182 17 3 33-35
71 182 17 3 34,36,54
>
> > Ideally, what we are looking for 16 extra pre_vector reply queue is
> > "effective affinity" to be within local numa node as long as that numa
> > node has online CPUs. If not, we are ok to have effective cpu from any
> > node.
>
> Well, we surely can do the initial allocation and spreading on the local
> numa node, but once all CPUs are offline on that node, then the whole
thing
> goes down the drain and allocates from where it sees fit. I'll think
about
> it some more, especially how to avoid the proliferation of the affinity
> hint.
Thanks for looking this request. This will help us to implement WIP
megaraid_sas driver changes. I can test any patch you want me to try.
>
> Thanks,
>
> tglx
