genirq/affinity: Spread irq vectors among present CPUs as far as possible
Commit 84676c1f ("genirq/affinity: assign vectors to all possible CPUs") tried to spread the interrupts accross all possible CPUs to make sure that in case of phsyical hotplug (e.g. virtualization) the CPUs which get plugged in after the device was initialized are targeted by a hardware queue and the corresponding interrupt. This has a downside in cases where the ACPI tables claim that there are more possible CPUs than present CPUs and the number of interrupts to spread out is smaller than the number of possible CPUs. These bogus ACPI tables are unfortunately not uncommon. In such a case the vector spreading algorithm assigns interrupts to CPUs which can never be utilized and as a consequence these interrupts are unused instead of being mapped to present CPUs. As a result the performance of the device is suboptimal. To fix this spread the interrupt vectors in two stages: 1) Spread as many interrupts as possible among the pres...
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