bitmap, irq: add smp_affinity_list interface to /proc/irq

Manually adjusting the smp_affinity for IRQ's becomes unwieldy when the
cpu count is large.

Setting smp affinity to cpus 256 to 263 would be:

	echo 000000ff,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000 > smp_affinity

instead of:

	echo 256-263 > smp_affinity_list

Think about what it looks like for cpus around say, 4088 to 4095.

We already have many alternate "list" interfaces:

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/indexY/shared_cpu_list
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings_list
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings_list
/sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/cpulist
/sys/devices/pci***/***/local_cpulist

Add a companion interface, smp_affinity_list to use cpu lists instead of
cpu maps.  This conforms to other companion interfaces where both a map
and a list interface exists.

This required adding a bitmap_parselist_user() function in a manner
similar to the bitmap_parse_user() function.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make __bitmap_parselist() static]
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Mike Travis
2011-05-24 17:13:12 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e50c1f609c
commit 4b060420a5
6 changed files with 188 additions and 23 deletions

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@@ -574,6 +574,12 @@ The contents of each smp_affinity file is the same by default:
> cat /proc/irq/0/smp_affinity
ffffffff
There is an alternate interface, smp_affinity_list which allows specifying
a cpu range instead of a bitmask:
> cat /proc/irq/0/smp_affinity_list
1024-1031
The default_smp_affinity mask applies to all non-active IRQs, which are the
IRQs which have not yet been allocated/activated, and hence which lack a
/proc/irq/[0-9]* directory.
@@ -583,12 +589,13 @@ reports itself as being attached. This hardware locality information does not
include information about any possible driver locality preference.
prof_cpu_mask specifies which CPUs are to be profiled by the system wide
profiler. Default value is ffffffff (all cpus).
profiler. Default value is ffffffff (all cpus if there are only 32 of them).
The way IRQs are routed is handled by the IO-APIC, and it's Round Robin
between all the CPUs which are allowed to handle it. As usual the kernel has
more info than you and does a better job than you, so the defaults are the
best choice for almost everyone.
best choice for almost everyone. [Note this applies only to those IO-APIC's
that support "Round Robin" interrupt distribution.]
There are three more important subdirectories in /proc: net, scsi, and sys.
The general rule is that the contents, or even the existence of these