On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 07:58:57PM -0700, Sinan Kaya wrote:

On 10/20/2016 7:31 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
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And I don't think it fixes a user-visible problem, so it doesn't need
to be applied immediately.  I'm not sure this is worth doing by
itself; maybe it should wait until we can do more cleanup and think
about all these issues together?

It does fix the PCI_USING penalty assignment. 

                if (link->irq.active && link->irq.active == irq)
                         penalty += PIRQ_PENALTY_PCI_USING;


If we drop this patch, then we need
[PATCH V3 1/3] ACPI, PCI IRQ: add PCI_USING penalty for ISA interrupts

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/2547605

as somebody needs to increment the penalty with PCI_USING when IRQ is assigned
for a given ISA IRQ.

We might as well take [PATCH V4 1/3], [PATCH V4 2/3] and [PATCH V3 1/3]
for this regression.

It sounds like either V3 1/3 or V4 3/3 will fix the regression.  The
V3 1/3 patch is much smaller and essentially makes this piece look
like it did in v4.6.

The V4 3/3 patch removes acpi_irq_penalty_init() and compensates by
using acpi_irq_pci_sharing_penalty() for ISA IRQs again.  But
acpi_irq_penalty_init() added PIRQ_PENALTY_PCI_POSSIBLE for _CRS, and
only if there was no _PRS, while acpi_irq_pci_sharing_penalty() always
adds PIRQ_PENALTY_PCI_USING for _CRS, regardless of whether _PRS
exists.

Since V4 3/3 is so much bigger and makes this quite subtle change in
how _CRS is handled, I like V3 1/3 better.

Are we all set to go now?  I think I've acked the patches you
mentioned.

Bjorn