Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] genirq/affinity: allow driver's discontigous affinity set

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Weiping Zhang <zhangweiping@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> nvme driver will add 4 sets for supporting NVMe weighted round robin,
> and some of these sets may be empty(depends on user configuration),
> so each particular set is assigned one static index for avoiding the
> management trouble, then the empty set will be been by
> irq_create_affinity_masks().

What's the point of an empty interrupt set in the first place? This does
not make sense and smells like a really bad hack.

Can you please explain in detail why this is required and why it
actually makes sense?

Thanks,

        tglx



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