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| author | Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> | 2011-12-20 01:08:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> | 2012-01-09 17:08:18 +0000 |
| commit | cdb08f8fd8642a6d661c920f565e85cf87a0c9be (patch) | |
| tree | 038c7e30139a5d28abe8935be8935fe5a607a9f9 /drivers/net/ethernet/sfc | |
| parent | fa142b9da3393fd92b398b6bdecf3f21914e309b (diff) | |
| download | blackbird-op-linux-cdb08f8fd8642a6d661c920f565e85cf87a0c9be.tar.gz blackbird-op-linux-cdb08f8fd8642a6d661c920f565e85cf87a0c9be.zip | |
sfc: Set default parallelism to per-core by default
The previous default of per-package can be more CPU-efficient, but
users generally seem to prefer per-core. It should also allow
accelerated RFS to direct packets more precisely, if IRQ affinity
is properly spread out.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/sfc')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c index 5fcc42f7d865..d7301d2e81a7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ static unsigned int interrupt_mode; * interrupt handling. * * Cards without MSI-X will only target one CPU via legacy or MSI interrupt. - * The default (0) means to assign an interrupt to each package (level II cache) + * The default (0) means to assign an interrupt to each core. */ static unsigned int rss_cpus; module_param(rss_cpus, uint, 0444); @@ -1148,14 +1148,14 @@ static void efx_fini_io(struct efx_nic *efx) static int efx_wanted_parallelism(void) { - cpumask_var_t core_mask; + cpumask_var_t thread_mask; int count; int cpu; if (rss_cpus) return rss_cpus; - if (unlikely(!zalloc_cpumask_var(&core_mask, GFP_KERNEL))) { + if (unlikely(!zalloc_cpumask_var(&thread_mask, GFP_KERNEL))) { printk(KERN_WARNING "sfc: RSS disabled due to allocation failure\n"); return 1; @@ -1163,14 +1163,14 @@ static int efx_wanted_parallelism(void) count = 0; for_each_online_cpu(cpu) { - if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, core_mask)) { + if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, thread_mask)) { ++count; - cpumask_or(core_mask, core_mask, - topology_core_cpumask(cpu)); + cpumask_or(thread_mask, thread_mask, + topology_thread_cpumask(cpu)); } } - free_cpumask_var(core_mask); + free_cpumask_var(thread_mask); return count; } |
