Re: [PATCH net-next V6 0/2] cpumask,net: Affinity hint helper function

From: Amir Vadai <redacted>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 17:47:25 +0300

This patchset will set affinity hint to influence IRQs to be allocated on the
same NUMA node as the one where the card resides. As discussed in
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg271497.html

If the number of IRQs allocated is greater than the number of local NUMA cores, all
local cores will be used first, and the rest of the IRQs will be on a remote
NUMA node.
If no NUMA support - IRQ's and cores will be mapped 1:1

Since the utility function to calculate the mapping could be useful in other mq
drivers in the kernel, it was added to cpumask.[ch]

This patchset was tested and applied on top of net-next since the first
consumer is a network device (mlx4_en).  Over commit 506724c: "tg3: Override
clock, link aware and link idle mode during NVRAM dump"

I couldn't find a maintainer for cpumask.c, so only added the kernel mailing
list

Applied to net-next, thanks.