The RFC introduces constructs to re-balance the channel interrupts at CPU hotplug and at device hotplug operations, the latter being indeed "closure/opening operations" to enable the re-balancing also in cases when the device is just being closed/re-opened (as in "ethtool -L"). These changes originated from (and address /try to resolve) two known limitations of the current interrupts-to-CPUs mapping scheme, that is, (1) the "static" nature of this mapping scheme (that, e.g., can end up preventing the hot removal of certain CPUs) and (2) the lack of global visibility in such scheme (where devices/channels are mapped only "one at a time"/as they are offered, with the end result that globally the various interrupts are not always evenly spread across CPUs). Andrea Parri (Microsoft) (2): Drivers: hv: vmbus: Re-balance channel interrupts across CPUs at CPU hotplug Drivers: hv: vmbus: Re-balance channel interrupts across CPUs at device hotplug drivers/hv/channel.c | 81 ++++++++++++ drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c | 263 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/hv/connection.c | 32 +++-- drivers/hv/hv.c | 62 +++++---- drivers/hv/hyperv_vmbus.h | 78 +++++++++++ drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 45 ++----- include/linux/hyperv.h | 26 ++++ kernel/cpu.c | 1 + 8 files changed, 523 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-) -- 2.25.1