Re: irq/affinity: Fix extra vecs calculation

From: Andrei Vagin
Date: Wed Apr 19 2017 - 18:32:29 EST


On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 05:53:09PM -0400, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 12:53:44PM -0700, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 01:03:59PM -0400, Keith Busch wrote:
> > > If it's a divide by 0 as your last link indicates, that must mean there
> > > are possible nodes, but have no CPUs, and those should be skipped. If
> > > that's the case, the following should fix it, but I'm going to do some
> > > more qemu testing with various CPU topologies to confirm.
> >
> > I printed variables from my test host, I think this can help to
> > investigate the issue:
> >
> > irq_create_affinity_masks:116: vecs_to_assign 0 ncpus 2 extra_vecs 2 vecs_per_node 0 affv 2 curvec 2 nodes 1
>
> That explains a lot. This setup wants 2 "pre_vectors", but I didn't
> know that was even a thing. This should fix it:

This patch works for me.
>
> ---
> diff --git a/kernel/irq/affinity.c b/kernel/irq/affinity.c
> index d052947..eb8b689 100644
> --- a/kernel/irq/affinity.c
> +++ b/kernel/irq/affinity.c
> @@ -98,13 +98,16 @@ irq_create_affinity_masks(int nvecs, const struct irq_affinity *affd)
> int ncpus, v, vecs_to_assign, vecs_per_node;
>
> /* Spread the vectors per node */
> - vecs_per_node = (affv - curvec) / nodes;
> + vecs_per_node = (affv - (curvec - affd->pre_vectors)) / nodes;
>
> /* Get the cpus on this node which are in the mask */
> cpumask_and(nmsk, cpu_online_mask, cpumask_of_node(n));
> --