[PATCH] net/mlx5: Update mlx5_irq.mask when IRQ affinity changes
From: Yi Li
Date: Thu May 14 2026 - 03:43:40 EST
mlx5_irq.mask is used for:
1) Setting IRQ affinity_hint in mlx5_irq_alloc()
2) Determining mlx5e_channel.cpu in mlx5e_open_channel(), which in turn
decides the NUMA node for queue allocations.
When a user modifies IRQ affinity, mlx5_irq.mask remains unchanged.
Consequently even if mlx5e_open_channel() is invoked again, queues are
still allocated on the original NUMA node instead of the newly
preferred one.
Fix this by registering an irq_set_affinity_notifier to update
mlx5_irq.mask when /proc/irq/N/smp_affinity is modified.
Therefore subsequent queue allocations reflect the updated affinity.
Signed-off-by: Yi Li <liyi@xxxxxxxx>
---
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pci_irq.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pci_irq.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pci_irq.c
index e051b9a939ee..501496159aa2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pci_irq.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pci_irq.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ struct mlx5_irq {
int refcount;
struct msi_map map;
u32 pool_index;
+ struct irq_affinity_notify af_notify;
};
struct mlx5_irq_table {
@@ -158,6 +159,9 @@ static void mlx5_system_free_irq(struct mlx5_irq *irq)
struct cpu_rmap *rmap;
#endif
+ if (irq->af_notify.notify)
+ irq_set_affinity_notifier(irq->map.virq, NULL);
+
/* free_irq requires that affinity_hint and rmap will be cleared before
* calling it. To satisfy this requirement, we call
* irq_cpu_rmap_remove() to remove the notifier
@@ -252,6 +256,16 @@ static void irq_set_name(struct mlx5_irq_pool *pool, char *name, int vecidx)
snprintf(name, MLX5_MAX_IRQ_NAME, "mlx5_comp%d", vecidx);
}
+static void mlx5_irq_affinity_changed(struct irq_affinity_notify *notify,
+ const cpumask_t *mask)
+{
+ struct mlx5_irq *irq = container_of(notify, struct mlx5_irq, af_notify);
+
+ cpumask_copy(irq->mask, mask);
+}
+
+static void mlx5_irq_affinity_notifier_release(struct kref *ref) {}
+
struct mlx5_irq *mlx5_irq_alloc(struct mlx5_irq_pool *pool, int i,
struct irq_affinity_desc *af_desc,
struct cpu_rmap **rmap)
@@ -307,6 +321,10 @@ struct mlx5_irq *mlx5_irq_alloc(struct mlx5_irq_pool *pool, int i,
if (af_desc) {
cpumask_copy(irq->mask, &af_desc->mask);
irq_set_affinity_and_hint(irq->map.virq, irq->mask);
+
+ irq->af_notify.notify = mlx5_irq_affinity_changed;
+ irq->af_notify.release = mlx5_irq_affinity_notifier_release;
+ irq_set_affinity_notifier(irq->map.virq, &irq->af_notify);
}
irq->pool = pool;
irq->refcount = 1;
--
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