Re: [PATCH] nvme: use the correct msix vector for each queue

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Dec 07 2016 - 17:46:35 EST


On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 05:49:42PM -0500, Keith Busch wrote:
> I'm just saying that blk-mq's hctx mapping will end up choosing a queue
> who's vector is mapped to a different CPU, and we don't want that.

Right. For 4.10 we could use the pci_alloc_irq_vectors_affinity helper
to set away a pre_vector IFF we want a separate vector for the admin
queue.

> We are currently sharing the first IO queue's interrupt vector with
> the admin queue's on purpose. Are you saying there's something wrong
> with that?

But given that the sharing was done intentionally and we had a long
discussion on it back then there should be no real reason to change
the assignment in NVMe.