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From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat•com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB•COM>
Cc: "nhorman@redhat•com" <nhorman@redhat•com>,
	"e1000-devel@lists•sourceforge.net"
	<e1000-devel@lists•sourceforge.net>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel•com>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel•com>,
	"agospoda@redhat•com" <agospoda@redhat•com>,
	John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel•com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ixgbe, fix numa issues
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 06:00:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <530C77DE.8050409@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D0F6CA75F@AcuExch.aculab.com>



On 02/25/2014 05:21 AM, David Laight wrote:
> From: Prarit Bhargava
> ...
>> What has caused that check to be necessary is that the ixgbe driver is now
>> allocating so many interrupts that on large systems which full sockets are taken
>> in and out of service, it is possible that there are not enough empty vectors
>> for all the irqs on a down'd cpu.  IMO what the ixgbe driver is effectively
>> doing is starving the system of resources.  If I rmmod the ixgbe driver (and
>> free it's irqs of course) I have no problem in taking all cpus except 1 out of
>> service.
> 
> If I read that correctly it looks as though ixgbe should be allocating
> a number of interrupts on each cpu - for the interrupts it wants to take
> on that cpu.

Yes, the code currently does it.

> 
> Then taking the cpu out of service would 'just' require that the interrupts
> that are tied to that cpu be removed first?

Yes, that would happen with a cpu notifier (I've already written a simple dummy
one that just printk's when called).  I started to implement a single queue
teardown but hit some of these enumeration issues.  I'd like to fix these first
and then get to the teardown.

P.

> 
> 	David
> 
> 
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-25 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-24 18:51 [PATCH 0/2] ixgbe, fix numa issues Prarit Bhargava
2014-02-24 18:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] ixgbe, make interrupt allocations NUMA aware Prarit Bhargava
2014-02-24 19:26   ` Alexander Duyck
2014-02-24 19:39     ` Prarit Bhargava
2014-02-24 19:49       ` Alexander Duyck
2014-02-24 18:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] ixgbe, don't assume mapping of numa node cpus Prarit Bhargava
2014-02-24 19:39   ` Alexander Duyck
2014-02-25 17:27   ` Amir Vadai
2014-02-25 17:43     ` Prarit Bhargava
2014-02-24 19:23 ` [PATCH 0/2] ixgbe, fix numa issues Alexander Duyck
2014-02-24 19:34   ` Prarit Bhargava
2014-02-24 19:57     ` Alexander Duyck
2014-02-25  1:06       ` Prarit Bhargava
2014-02-25 10:21         ` David Laight
2014-02-25 11:00           ` Prarit Bhargava [this message]
2014-02-25 15:10             ` Alexander Duyck
2014-02-25 15:13               ` Prarit Bhargava

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