Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] sched, net: NUMA-aware CPU spreading interface

[Valentin Schneider]

On 08/11/22 13:25, Tariq Toukan wrote:
> On 11/3/2022 4:56 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 17:49:56 +0100 Valentin Schneider wrote:
>>> Tariq pointed out in [1] that drivers allocating IRQ vectors would benefit
>>> from having smarter NUMA-awareness (cpumask_local_spread() doesn't quite cut
>>> it).
>>>
>>> The proposed interface involved an array of CPUs and a temporary cpumask, and
>>> being my difficult self what I'm proposing here is an interface that doesn't
>>> require any temporary storage other than some stack variables (at the cost of
>>> one wild macro).
>>>
>>> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220728191203.4055-1-tariqt@xxxxxxxxxx/
>>
>> Not sure who's expected to take these, no preference here so:
>>
>> Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Thanks for ironing it out!
>
> Thanks Jakub.
>
> Valentin, what do you think?
> Shouldn't it go through the sched branch?

So yeah the topology bits should go through tip/sched/core, and given it's
the only user of the new interface, the mlx5e one should probably be
bundled with them.