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genirq/affinity: Spread irq vectors among present CPUs as far as possible
Commit 84676c1f ("genirq/affinity: assign vectors to all possible CPUs") tried to spread the interrupts accross all possible CPUs to make sure that in case of phsyical hotplug (e.g. virtualization) the CPUs which get plugged in after the device was initialized are targeted by a hardware queue and the corresponding interrupt. This has a downside in cases where the ACPI tables claim that there are more possible CPUs than present CPUs and the number of interrupts to spread out is smaller than the number of possible CPUs. These bogus ACPI tables are unfortunately not uncommon. In such a case the vector spreading algorithm assigns interrupts to CPUs which can never be utilized and as a consequence these interrupts are unused instead of being mapped to present CPUs. As a result the performance of the device is suboptimal. To fix this spread the interrupt vectors in two stages: 1) Spread as many interrupts as possible among the present CPUs 2) Spread the remaining vectors among non present CPUs On a 8 core system, where CPU 0-3 are present and CPU 4-7 are not present, for a device with 4 queues the resulting interrupt affinity is: 1) Before 84676c1f ("genirq/affinity: assign vectors to all possible CPUs") irq 39, cpu list 0 irq 40, cpu list 1 irq 41, cpu list 2 irq 42, cpu list 3 2) With 84676c1f ("genirq/affinity: assign vectors to all possible CPUs") irq 39, cpu list 0-2 irq 40, cpu list 3-4,6 irq 41, cpu list 5 irq 42, cpu list 7 3) With the refined vector spread applied: irq 39, cpu list 0,4 irq 40, cpu list 1,6 irq 41, cpu list 2,5 irq 42, cpu list 3,7 On a 8 core system, where all CPUs are present the resulting interrupt affinity for the 4 queues is: irq 39, cpu list 0,1 irq 40, cpu list 2,3 irq 41, cpu list 4,5 irq 42, cpu list 6,7 This is independent of the number of CPUs which are online at the point of initialization because in such a system the offline CPUs can be easily onlined afterwards, while in non-present CPUs need to be plugged physically or virtually which requires external interaction. The downside of this approach is that in case of physical hotplug the interrupt vector spreading might be suboptimal when CPUs 4-7 are physically plugged. Suboptimal from a NUMA point of view and due to the single target nature of interrupt affinities the later plugged CPUs might not be targeted by interrupts at all. Though, physical hotplug systems are not the common case while the broken ACPI table disease is wide spread. So it's preferred to have as many interrupts as possible utilized at the point where the device is initialized. Block multi-queue devices like NVME create a hardware queue per possible CPU, so the goal of commit 84676c1f to assign one interrupt vector per possible CPU is still achieved even with physical/virtual hotplug. [ tglx: Changed from online to present CPUs for the first spreading stage, renamed variables for readability sake, added comments and massaged changelog ] Reported-by:Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: