i40e/i40evf: spread CPU affinity hints across online CPUs only

Currently, when setting up the IRQ for a q_vector, we set an affinity
hint based on the v_idx of that q_vector. Meaning a loop iterates on
v_idx, which is an incremental value, and the cpumask is created based
on this value.

This is a problem in systems with multiple logical CPUs per core (like in
simultaneous multithreading (SMT) scenarios). If we disable some logical
CPUs, by turning SMT off for example, we will end up with a sparse
cpu_online_mask, i.e., only the first CPU in a core is online, and
incremental filling in q_vector cpumask might lead to multiple offline
CPUs being assigned to q_vectors.

Example: if we have a system with 8 cores each one containing 8 logical
CPUs (SMT == 8 in this case), we have 64 CPUs in total. But if SMT is
disabled, only the 1st CPU in each core remains online, so the
cpu_online_mask in this case would have only 8 bits set, in a sparse way.

In general case, when SMT is off the cpu_online_mask has only C bits set:
0, 1*N, 2*N, ..., C*(N-1)  where
C == # of cores;
N == # of logical CPUs per core.
In our example, only bits 0, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56 would be set.

Instead, we should only assign hints for CPUs which are online. Even
better, the kernel already provides a function, cpumask_local_spread()
which takes an index and returns a CPU, spreading the interrupts across
local NUMA nodes first, and then remote ones if necessary.

Since we generally have a 1:1 mapping between vectors and CPUs, there
is no real advantage to spreading vectors to local CPUs first. In order
to avoid mismatch of the default XPS hints, we'll pass -1 so that it
spreads across all CPUs without regard to the node locality.

Note that we don't need to change the q_vector->affinity_mask as this is
initialized to cpu_possible_mask, until an actual affinity is set and
then notified back to us.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
index b539469f576f..d2bb4f17c89e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
@@ -2885,14 +2885,15 @@ static void i40e_vsi_free_rx_resources(struct i40e_vsi *vsi)
 static void i40e_config_xps_tx_ring(struct i40e_ring *ring)
 {
 	struct i40e_vsi *vsi = ring->vsi;
+	int cpu;
 
 	if (!ring->q_vector || !ring->netdev)
 		return;
 
 	if ((vsi->tc_config.numtc <= 1) &&
 	    !test_and_set_bit(__I40E_TX_XPS_INIT_DONE, &ring->state)) {
-		netif_set_xps_queue(ring->netdev,
-				    get_cpu_mask(ring->q_vector->v_idx),
+		cpu = cpumask_local_spread(ring->q_vector->v_idx, -1);
+		netif_set_xps_queue(ring->netdev, get_cpu_mask(cpu),
 				    ring->queue_index);
 	}
 
@@ -3482,6 +3483,7 @@ static int i40e_vsi_request_irq_msix(struct i40e_vsi *vsi, char *basename)
 	int tx_int_idx = 0;
 	int vector, err;
 	int irq_num;
+	int cpu;
 
 	for (vector = 0; vector < q_vectors; vector++) {
 		struct i40e_q_vector *q_vector = vsi->q_vectors[vector];
@@ -3517,10 +3519,14 @@ static int i40e_vsi_request_irq_msix(struct i40e_vsi *vsi, char *basename)
 		q_vector->affinity_notify.notify = i40e_irq_affinity_notify;
 		q_vector->affinity_notify.release = i40e_irq_affinity_release;
 		irq_set_affinity_notifier(irq_num, &q_vector->affinity_notify);
-		/* get_cpu_mask returns a static constant mask with
-		 * a permanent lifetime so it's ok to use here.
+		/* Spread affinity hints out across online CPUs.
+		 *
+		 * get_cpu_mask returns a static constant mask with
+		 * a permanent lifetime so it's ok to pass to
+		 * irq_set_affinity_hint without making a copy.
 		 */
-		irq_set_affinity_hint(irq_num, get_cpu_mask(q_vector->v_idx));
+		cpu = cpumask_local_spread(q_vector->v_idx, -1);
+		irq_set_affinity_hint(irq_num, get_cpu_mask(cpu));
 	}
 
 	vsi->irqs_ready = true;