Re: [PATCH v6 00/14] genirq: Cleanup the abuse of irq_set_affinity_hint()

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Hi Martin,

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 5:16 PM Nitesh Lal <nilal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 2:30 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Nitesh,
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 13 2021 at 10:34, Nitesh Lal wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 11:25 AM Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> 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()"
> >
> > sorry for ignoring this. It fell through the cracks.
>
>
> No worries, thank you for reviewing.
>
> >
> >
> > >> Thomas Gleixner (1):
> > >>   genirq: Provide new interfaces for affinity hints
> >
> > Did I actually write this?
>
>
> Yeap, the idea and the initial patch came from you. :)
>
> >
> >
> > > Any suggestions on what should be the next steps here? Unfortunately, I haven't
> > > been able to get any reviews on the following two patches:
> > >   be2net: Use irq_update_affinity_hint
> > >   hinic: Use irq_set_affinity_and_hint
> > >
> > > One option would be to proceed with the remaining patches and I can try
> > > posting these two again when I post patches for the remaining drivers?
> >
> > The more general question is whether I should queue all the others or
> > whether some subsystem would prefer to pull in a tagged commit on top of
> > rc1. I'm happy to carry them all of course.
> >
>
> I am fine either way.
> In the past, while I was asking for more testing help I was asked if the
> SCSI changes are part of Martins's scsi-fixes tree as that's something
> Broadcom folks test to check for regression.
> So, maybe Martin can pull this up?
>

Gentle ping.
Any thoughts on the above query?

-- 
Thanks
Nitesh




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