Commit c0af5243 authored Dec 14, 2016 by Guilherme G. Piccoli Committed by Thomas Gleixner Dec 15, 2016

genirq/affinity: Fix node generation from cpumask



Commit 34c3d981 ("genirq/affinity: Provide smarter irq spreading
infrastructure") introduced a better IRQ spreading mechanism, taking
account of the available NUMA nodes in the machine.

Problem is that the algorithm of retrieving the nodemask iterates
"linearly" based on the number of online nodes - some architectures
present non-linear node distribution among the nodemask, like PowerPC.
If this is the case, the algorithm lead to a wrong node count number
and therefore to a bad/incomplete IRQ affinity distribution.

For example, this problem were found in a machine with 128 CPUs and two
nodes, namely nodes 0 and 8 (instead of 0 and 1, if it was linearly
distributed). This led to a wrong affinity distribution which then led to
a bad mq allocation for nvme driver.

Finally, we take the opportunity to fix a comment regarding the affinity
distribution when we have _more_ nodes than vectors.

Fixes: 34c3d981 ("genirq/affinity: Provide smarter irq spreading infrastructure")
Reported-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@krisman.be>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@krisman.be>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: hch@lst.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481738472-2671-1-git-send-email-gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com


Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

parent f082f02c

kernel/irq/affinity.c

+3 −3

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -37,10 +37,10 @@ static void irq_spread_init_one(struct cpumask irqmsk, struct cpumask nmsk,

		static int get_nodes_in_cpumask(const struct cpumask mask, nodemask_t nodemsk)
		{
		int n, nodes;
		int n, nodes = 0;

		/* Calculate the number of nodes in the supplied affinity mask */
		for (n = 0, nodes = 0; n < num_online_nodes(); n++) {
		for_each_online_node(n) {
		if (cpumask_intersects(mask, cpumask_of_node(n))) {
		node_set(n, *nodemsk);
		nodes++;
		@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ irq_create_affinity_masks(int nvecs, const struct irq_affinity *affd)
		nodes = get_nodes_in_cpumask(cpu_online_mask, &nodemsk);

		/*
		* If the number of nodes in the mask is less than or equal the
		* If the number of nodes in the mask is greater than or equal the
		* number of vectors we just spread the vectors across the nodes.
		*/
		if (affv <= nodes) {

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