Re: [PATCH net-next 3/9] net/mlx4_core: Set EQ affinity hint to local NUMA CPUs

[Daniel Jurgens]

On 1/16/2017 3:44 PM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Tariq Toukan <tar...@mellanox.com> wrote:
>> From: Daniel Jurgens <dani...@mellanox.com>
>>
>> Use CPUs on the close NUMA when setting the EQ affinity hints.
> Dan, are we sure there are no down-sides for always doing this? this
> code is probably there for many years and we're introducing here new
> behaviour to potentially to many Ms installs when they get distro
> update that includes this patch.
>
I don't see a downside, this just favors using the node local CPUs before 
others.  I don't understand your 2nd sentence there.  "Ms installs"?