The drivers currently rely on irq_set_affinity_hint() to either set the affinity_hint that is consumed by the userspace and/or to enforce a custom affinity. irq_set_affinity_hint() as the name suggests is originally introduced to only set the affinity_hint to help the userspace in guiding the interrupts and not the affinity itself. However, since the commit e2e64a932556 "genirq: Set initial affinity in irq_set_affinity_hint()" irq_set_affinity_hint() also started applying the provided cpumask (if not NULL) as the affinity for the interrupts. The issue that this commit was trying to solve is to allow the drivers to enforce their affinity mask to distribute the interrupts across the CPUs such that they don't always end up on CPU0. This issue has been resolved within the irq subsystem since the commit a0c9259dc4e1 "irq/matrix: Spread interrupts on allocation" Hence, there is no need for the drivers to overwrite the affinity to spread as it is dynamically performed at the time of allocation. Also, irq_set_affinity_hint() setting affinity unconditionally introduces issues for the drivers that only want to set their affinity_hint and not the affinity itself as for these driver interrupts the default_smp_affinity_mask is completely ignored (for detailed investigation please refer to [1]). Unfortunately reverting the commit e2e64a932556 is not an option at this point for two reasons [2]: - Several drivers for a valid reason (performance) rely on this API to enforce their own affinity mask - Until very recently this was the only exported interface that was available To clear this out Thomas has come up with the following interfaces: - irq_set_affinity(): only sets affinity of an IRQ [3] - irq_update_affinity_hint(): Only sets the hint [4] - irq_set_affinity_and_hint(): Sets both affinity and the hint mask [4] The first API is already merged in the linux-next tree and a v2 for the remaining two is included with this patch-set. To move to the stage where we can safely get rid of the irq_set_affinity_hint(), which has been marked deprecated, we have to move all its consumers to these new interfaces. In this patch-set, I have done that for a few drivers and will hopefully try to move the remaining of them in the coming days. Testing ------- In terms of testing, I have performed some basic testing on x86 to verify things such as the interrupts are evenly spread on all CPUs, hint mask is correctly set etc. for the drivers - i40e, iavf, mlx5, mlx4, ixgbe, i40iw and enic on top of: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git master - 5.13.0-rc6 So more testing is probably required for these and the drivers that I didn't test and any help will be much appreciated. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1a044a14-0884-eedb-5d30-28b4bec24b23@xxxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/d1d5e797-49ee-4968-88c6-c07119343492@xxxxxxx/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20210518091725.046774792@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [4] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1434326/ Nitesh Narayan Lal (13): iavf: Use irq_update_affinity_hint i40e: Use irq_update_affinity_hint scsi: megaraid_sas: Use irq_set_affinity_and_hint scsi: mpt3sas: Use irq_set_affinity_and_hint RDMA/i40iw: Use irq_update_affinity_hint enic: Use irq_update_affinity_hint be2net: Use irq_update_affinity_hint ixgbe: Use irq_update_affinity_hint mailbox: Use irq_update_affinity_hint scsi: lpfc: Use irq_set_affinity hinic: Use irq_set_affinity_and_hint net/mlx5: Use irq_update_affinity_hint net/mlx4: Use irq_update_affinity_hint Thomas Gleixner (1): genirq: Provide new interfaces for affinity hints drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_main.c | 4 +- drivers/mailbox/bcm-flexrm-mailbox.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c | 6 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_rx.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 8 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c | 8 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 6 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/eq.c | 6 +-- .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pci_irq.c | 6 +-- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c | 25 ++++++----- drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c | 15 ++++--- include/linux/interrupt.h | 41 ++++++++++++++++++- kernel/irq/manage.c | 8 ++-- 15 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-) --
