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    net/mlx4_en: Use affinity hint · 70a640d0
    Yuval Atias authored
    The “affinity hint” mechanism is used by the user space
    daemon, irqbalancer, to indicate a preferred CPU mask for irqs.
    Irqbalancer can use this hint to balance the irqs between the
    cpus indicated by the mask.
    
    We wish the HCA to preferentially map the IRQs it uses to numa cores
    close to it.  To accomplish this, we use cpumask_set_cpu_local_first(), that
    sets the affinity hint according the following policy:
    First it maps IRQs to “close” numa cores.  If these are exhausted, the
    remaining IRQs are mapped to “far” numa cores.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYuval Atias <yuvala@mellanox.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAmir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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