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Add a new bus method to fetch device-specific CPU sets.

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Add a new bus method to fetch device-specific CPU sets.

bus_get_cpus() returns a specified set of CPUs for a device. It accepts
an enum for the second parameter that indicates the type of cpuset to
request. Currently two valus are supported:

  • LOCAL_CPUS (on x86 this returns all the CPUs in the package closest to the device when DEVICE_NUMA is enabled)
  • INTR_CPUS (like LOCAL_CPUS but only returns 1 SMT thread for each core)

For systems that do not support NUMA (or if it is not enabled in the kernel
config), LOCAL_CPUS fails with EINVAL. INTR_CPUS is mapped to 'all_cpus'
by default. The idea is that INTR_CPUS should always return a valid set.

Device drivers which want to use per-CPU interrupts should start using
INTR_CPUS instead of simply assigning interrupts to all available CPUs.
In the future we may wish to add tunables to control the policy of
INTR_CPUS (e.g. should it be local-only or global, should it ignore
SMT threads or not).

The x86 nexus driver exposes the internal set of interrupt CPUs from the
the x86 interrupt code via INTR_CPUS.

The ACPI bus driver and PCI bridge drivers use _PXM to return a suitable
LOCAL_CPUS set when _PXM exists and DEVICE_NUMA is enabled. They also and
the global INTR_CPUS set from the nexus driver with the per-domain set from
_PXM to generate a local INTR_CPUS set for child devices.

Reviewed by: wblock (manpage)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5519

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wblock
Differential Revision
D5519: Add a new bus method to fetch device-specific CPU sets.
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rS298932: dev/usb: minor spelling fixes in comments.
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