Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 14/14] net/mlx4: Use irq_update_affinity_hint

From: Tariq Toukan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:19:20 +0300

On 7/14/2021 12:15 AM, Nitesh Narayan Lal wrote:
> The driver uses irq_set_affinity_hint() to update the affinity_hint mask
> that is consumed by the userspace to distribute the interrupts. However,
> under the hood irq_set_affinity_hint() also applies the provided cpumask
> (if not NULL) as the affinity for the given interrupt which is an
> undocumented side effect.
> 
> To remove this side effect irq_set_affinity_hint() has been marked
> as deprecated and new interfaces have been introduced. Hence, replace the
> irq_set_affinity_hint() with the new interface irq_update_affinity_hint()
> that only updates the affinity_hint pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nitesh Narayan Lal <[email-masked]>
> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
> ---

Thanks for you patch.
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <[email-masked]>

Tariq