[PATCH 1/2] genirq: add an affinity parameter to irq_create_mapping()

[Laurent Vivier]

On 24/11/2020 23:19, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24 2020 at 21:03, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>> This parameter is needed to pass it to irq_domain_alloc_descs().
>>
>> This seems to have been missed by
>> o06ee6d571f0e ("genirq: Add affinity hint to irq allocation")
> 
> No, this has not been missed at all. There was and is no reason to do
> this.
> 
>> This is needed to implement proper support for multiqueue with
>> pseries.
> 
> And because pseries needs this _all_ callers need to be changed?
> 
>>  123 files changed, 171 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-)
> 
> Lots of churn for nothing. 99% of the callers will never need that.
> 
> What's wrong with simply adding an interface which takes that parameter,
> make the existing one an inline wrapper and and leave the rest alone?

Nothing. I'm going to do like that.

Thank you for your comment.

Laurent