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    i40e/i40evf: spread CPU affinity hints across online CPUs only · be664cbe
    Jacob Keller authored
    Currently, when setting up the IRQ for a q_vector, we set an affinity
    hint based on the v_idx of that q_vector. Meaning a loop iterates on
    v_idx, which is an incremental value, and the cpumask is created based
    on this value.
    
    This is a problem in systems with multiple logical CPUs per core (like in
    simultaneous multithreading (SMT) scenarios). If we disable some logical
    CPUs, by turning SMT off for example, we will end up with a sparse
    cpu_online_mask, i.e., only the first CPU in a core is online, and
    incremental filling in q_vector cpumask might lead to multiple offline
    CPUs being assigned to q_vectors.
    
    Example: if we have a system with 8 cores each one containing 8 logical
    CPUs (SMT == 8 in this case), we have 64 CPUs in total. But if SMT is
    disabled, only the 1st CPU in each core remains online, so the
    cpu_online_mask in this case would have only 8 bits set, in a sparse way.
    
    In general case, when SMT is off the cpu_online_mask has only C bits set:
    0, 1*N, 2*N, ..., C*(N-1)  where
    C == # of cores;
    N == # of logical CPUs per core.
    In our example, only bits 0, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56 would be set.
    
    Instead, we should only assign hints for CPUs which are online. Even
    better, the kernel already provides a function, cpumask_local_spread()
    which takes an index and returns a CPU, spreading the interrupts across
    local NUMA nodes first, and then remote ones if necessary.
    
    Since we generally have a 1:1 mapping between vectors and CPUs, there
    is no real advantage to spreading vectors to local CPUs first. In order
    to avoid mismatch of the default XPS hints, we'll pass -1 so that it
    spreads across all CPUs without regard to the node locality.
    
    Note that we don't need to change the q_vector->affinity_mask as this is
    initialized to cpu_possible_mask, until an actual affinity is set and
    then notified back to us.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarAndrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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