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authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>2011-05-17 16:01:13 -0700
committerStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>2011-05-17 16:01:13 -0700
commitcbdd8d9e5b017728f181188ea6ceccfe1045af4f (patch)
tree9ddbdb67d5329b90f97ba072c6fd54663455caa6 /scripts
parentc0172552efebc48d8b82294f3e163e734bf536b3 (diff)
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irq-affinity: add workaround to avoid some cpu's
For routing and other applications it is helpful to provide some mechanism to reserve some set of CPU's and not assign interface IRQ's to them. Uses environment variable VYATTA_IRQAFFINITY_BANNED_CPUS as mechanism similar to irqbalance(8).
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/system/irq-affinity.pl34
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/system/irq-affinity.pl b/scripts/system/irq-affinity.pl
index 2f023b7a..409eb8f6 100755
--- a/scripts/system/irq-affinity.pl
+++ b/scripts/system/irq-affinity.pl
@@ -131,17 +131,31 @@ sub set_rps {
close $f;
}
+# Check if the current if this cpu is in the banned mask
+# Uses environment variable VYATTA_IRQAFFINITY_BANNED_CPUS
+# to mask cpus which irq affinity script should ignore
+sub skip_cpu {
+ my $cpu = shift;
+ my $banned = $ENV{'VYATTA_IRQAFFINITY_BANNED_CPUS'};
+
+ return unless defined($banned); # false
+
+ return ((1 << $cpu) & hex($banned)) != 0;
+}
+
# For multi-queue NIC choose next cpu to be on next core
-# FIXME assumes all cpu's online
sub next_cpu {
- my $cpu = shift;
+ my $origcpu = shift;
my $threads = threads_per_core();
+ my $cpu = $origcpu;
- $cpu += $threads;
- if ( $cpu >= $cpus ) {
- # wraparound to next thread on core 0
- $cpu = ($cpu + 1) % $threads;
- }
+ do {
+ $cpu += $threads;
+ if ( $cpu >= $cpus ) {
+ # wraparound to next thread on core 0
+ $cpu = ($cpu + 1) % $threads;
+ }
+ } while ($cpu != $origcpu && skip_cpu($cpu));
return $cpu;
}
@@ -157,11 +171,15 @@ sub choose_cpu {
unless defined($ifunit);
my $threads = threads_per_core();
+
# Give the load first to one CPU of each hyperthreaded core, then
# if there are enough NICs, give the load to the other CPU of
# each core.
my $ht_wrap = (($ifunit * $threads) / $cpus) % $threads;
- return ((($ifunit * $threads) + $ht_wrap) % $cpus);
+ my $cpu = ((($ifunit * $threads) + $ht_wrap) % $cpus);
+
+ $cpu = next_cpu($cpu) if skip_cpu($cpu);
+ return $cpu;
}
# Assignment for multi-queue NICs