Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86, apic: optimize cpu traversal in__assign_irq_vector() using domain membership

[Suresh Siddha]

On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 10:31 +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 04:43:30PM -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> > Use the irq_cfg's old_domain to track the visited domains and optimize
> > the cpu traversal while finding a free vector in the given cpumask.
> > 
> > NOTE: We can also optimize the search by using for_each_cpu and skip the
> > current cpu, if it is not the first cpu in the mask returned by the
> > vector_allocation_domain(). But re-using the cfg->old_domain to track
> > the visited domains will be slightly faster.
> 
> Sorry for the dealy, Suresh.
> 
> You also need to kick out vector_allocation_domain's return value in all other
> apic drivers.

this patch is on top of -tip which already has your patch which
consolidates different vector_allocation_domains to relatively few. I
double checked and don't seem to left out any other apic driver.

thanks,
suresh


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