Hello, irq_build_affinity_masks() actually grouping CPUs evenly into each managed irq vector according to NUMA and CPU locality, and it is reasonable to abstract one generic API for grouping CPUs evenly, the idea is suggested by Thomas Gleixner. group_cpus_evenly() is abstracted and put into lib/, so blk-mq can re-use it to build default queue mapping. blk-mq IO perf data is observed as more stable, meantime with big improvement, see detailed data in the last patch. Please consider it for v6.3! V4: - address comments from John, not export the API, given so far no module uses this symbol - add maintainer entry for new added lib/group_cpus.c - rebase on 6.2 V3: - fix build failure in case of !CONFIG_SMP, only 6/7 is changed V2: - fix build failure in case of !CONFIG_SMP - fix commit log typo - fix memory leak in last patch - add reviewed-by Since RFC: - remove RFC - rebase on -next tree Ming Lei (6): genirq/affinity: Remove the 'firstvec' parameter from irq_build_affinity_masks genirq/affinity: Pass affinity managed mask array to irq_build_affinity_masks genirq/affinity: Don't pass irq_affinity_desc array to irq_build_affinity_masks genirq/affinity: Rename irq_build_affinity_masks as group_cpus_evenly genirq/affinity: Move group_cpus_evenly() into lib/ blk-mq: Build default queue map via group_cpus_evenly() MAINTAINERS | 2 + block/blk-mq-cpumap.c | 63 ++---- include/linux/group_cpus.h | 14 ++ kernel/irq/affinity.c | 405 +---------------------------------- lib/Makefile | 2 + lib/group_cpus.c | 427 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 6 files changed, 467 insertions(+), 446 deletions(-) create mode 100644 include/linux/group_cpus.h create mode 100644 lib/group_cpus.c -- 2.31.1