Re: [PATCH] mlx5: remove support for ib_get_vector_affinity

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On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 09:13:12AM -0700, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> Devices that does not use managed affinity can not export a vector
> affinity as the consumer relies on having a static mapping it can map
> to upper layer affinity (e.g. sw queues). If the driver allows the user
> to set the device irq affinity, then the affinitization of a long term
> existing entites is not relevant.
> 
> For example, nvme-rdma controllers queue-irq affinitization is determined
> at init time so if the irq affinity changes over time, we are no longer
> aligned.
> 
> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>

Hi Sagi - If you dont mind, can do the same patch for i40iw? Since our device IRQs also do not
use managed affinity.

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_verbs.c#L2726

Shiraz



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