Re: [PATCH] irq: Add node_affinity CPU masks for smarter irqbalancehints

[Arjan van de Ven]

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > Same for userspace.
> > the problem is that there is no way currently that the driver can communicate
> > "I allocated all my metadata on THIS numa node". irqbalance and sysadmins need
> > that to not make really stupid decisions.....
>
> And what exactly is struct device::numa_node good for then?

and that is exported to userspace.. how?

... that has nothing to do with an irq, and also falls flat for a driver that
supports multiple irqs, and assigns one to each numa node.


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