Re: [RFC] Correct behaviour of irq affinity?

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Tue Mar 24 2009 - 16:37:44 EST


Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:51:43 Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> The effect of setting desc->affinity (ie. from userspace via sysfs) has varied
>>> over time. In 2.6.27, the 32-bit code anded the value with cpu_online_map,
>>> and both 32 and 64-bit did that anding whenever a cpu was unplugged.
>>>
>>> 2.6.29 consolidated this into one routine (and fixed hotplug) but introduced
>>> another variation: anding the affinity with cfg->domain. Is this right, or
>>> should we just set it to what the user said? Or as now, indicate that we're
>>> restricting it.
>>>
>>> If we should change it, here's what the patch looks like against x86 tip
>>> (cpu_mask_to_apicid_and already takes cpu_online_mask into account):
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
>>> index 86827d8..30906cd 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
>>> @@ -592,10 +592,10 @@ set_desc_affinity(struct irq_desc *desc, const struct cpumask *mask)
>>> if (assign_irq_vector(irq, cfg, mask))
>>> return BAD_APICID;
>>>
>>> - cpumask_and(desc->affinity, cfg->domain, mask);
>>> + cpumask_copy(desc->affinity, mask);
>>> set_extra_move_desc(desc, mask);
>>>
>>> - return apic->cpu_mask_to_apicid_and(desc->affinity, cpu_online_mask);
>>> + return apic->cpu_mask_to_apicid_and(desc->affinity, cfg->domain);
>>> }
>>>
>>> static void
>>>
>> cfg->domain for logical flat: will be ALL_CPUS
>> for phys flat (aka bigsmp on 32bit) will be one cpu set mask.
>>
>> so desc->affinity: for logical will be not changed, but
>> set_desc_affinity() return will be changed. ( not add with
>> cpu_online_mask anymore)
>
> No, internally cpu_mask_to_apicid_and() does and with cpu_online_mask
> already, eg in include/asm/bigsmp/apic.h:
>
> static inline unsigned int cpu_mask_to_apicid_and(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
> const struct cpumask *andmask)
> {
> int cpu;
>
> /*
> * We're using fixed IRQ delivery, can only return one phys APIC ID.
> * May as well be the first.
> */
> for_each_cpu_and(cpu, cpumask, andmask)
> if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cpu_online_mask))
> break;
> if (cpu < nr_cpu_ids)
> return cpu_to_logical_apicid(cpu);
>
> return BAD_APICID;
> }
>
>> when mask is 0x0f
>> for phys flat, desc->affinity will be changed to 0x0f from
>> 0x01/0x02/0x04/08, return set_desc_affinity is not changed.
>> so /proc/irq/xx/smp_affinity will be changed. and it does reflect that
>> actually affinity.
>>
>> so this patch looks not right.
>
> Only change should be that smp_affinity will reflect actual affinity, not
> affinity user set.

ok.
how about
static unsigned int flat_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
const struct cpumask *andmask)
{
unsigned long mask1 = cpumask_bits(cpumask)[0] & APIC_ALL_CPUS;
unsigned long mask2 = cpumask_bits(andmask)[0] & APIC_ALL_CPUS;

return mask1 & mask2;
}

change it use
default_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and ?

YH
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