Can we please make forward progress on this? Christoph, Sagi: it seems you think /proc/irq/$IRP/smp_affinity shouldn't be allowed if drivers support managed affinity. Is that correct? Perhaps that can be codified and be a way forward? IE: Somehow allow the admin to choose either "managed by the driver/ulps" or "managed by the system admin directly"? Or just use Sagi's patch. Perhaps a WARN_ONCE() if the affinity looks wonked when set via procfs? Just thinking out loud...
I think we should take my patch. While ideally we'd like to have perfect linear irq based queue mapping, people apparently really like to modify devices irq affinity. With this, at least some of the queues are assigned according to the device affinity. Its not ideal, but at least better than blindly falling to default mapping. Christoph? If there is strong resistance to the patch we should at least start by falling to the default mapping unconditionally.
