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Souradeep investigated that the driver performs faster if IRQs are
spread on CPUs with the following heuristics:

1. No more than one IRQ per CPU, if possible;
2. NUMA locality is the second priority;
3. Sibling dislocality is the last priority.

Let's consider this topology:

Node            0               1
Core        0       1       2       3
CPU       0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7

The most performant IRQ distribution based on the above topology
and heuristics may look like this:

IRQ     Nodes   Cores   CPUs
0       1       0       0-1
1       1       1       2-3
2       1       0       0-1
3       1       1       2-3
4       2       2       4-5
5       2       3       6-7
6       2       2       4-5
7       2       3       6-7

The irq_setup() routine introduced in this patch leverages the
for_each_numa_hop_mask() iterator and assigns IRQs to sibling groups
as described above.

According to [1], for NUMA-aware but sibling-ignorant IRQ distribution
based on cpumask_local_spread() performance test results look like this:

./ntttcp -r -m 16
NTTTCP for Linux 1.4.0
---------------------------------------------------------
08:05:20 INFO: 17 threads created
08:05:28 INFO: Network activity progressing...
08:06:28 INFO: Test run completed.
08:06:28 INFO: Test cycle finished.
08:06:28 INFO: #####  Totals:  #####
08:06:28 INFO: test duration    :60.00 seconds
08:06:28 INFO: total bytes      :630292053310
08:06:28 INFO:   throughput     :84.04Gbps
08:06:28 INFO:   retrans segs   :4
08:06:28 INFO: cpu cores        :192
08:06:28 INFO:   cpu speed      :3799.725MHz
08:06:28 INFO:   user           :0.05%
08:06:28 INFO:   system         :1.60%
08:06:28 INFO:   idle           :96.41%
08:06:28 INFO:   iowait         :0.00%
08:06:28 INFO:   softirq        :1.94%
08:06:28 INFO:   cycles/byte    :2.50
08:06:28 INFO: cpu busy (all)   :534.41%

For NUMA- and sibling-aware IRQ distribution, the same test works
15% faster:

./ntttcp -r -m 16
NTTTCP for Linux 1.4.0
---------------------------------------------------------
08:08:51 INFO: 17 threads created
08:08:56 INFO: Network activity progressing...
08:09:56 INFO: Test run completed.
08:09:56 INFO: Test cycle finished.
08:09:56 INFO: #####  Totals:  #####
08:09:56 INFO: test duration    :60.00 seconds
08:09:56 INFO: total bytes      :741966608384
08:09:56 INFO:   throughput     :98.93Gbps
08:09:56 INFO:   retrans segs   :6
08:09:56 INFO: cpu cores        :192
08:09:56 INFO:   cpu speed      :3799.791MHz
08:09:56 INFO:   user           :0.06%
08:09:56 INFO:   system         :1.81%
08:09:56 INFO:   idle           :96.18%
08:09:56 INFO:   iowait         :0.00%
08:09:56 INFO:   softirq        :1.95%
08:09:56 INFO:   cycles/byte    :2.25
08:09:56 INFO: cpu busy (all)   :569.22%

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231211063726.GA4977@linuxonhyperv3.guj3yctzbm1etfxqx2vob5hsef.xx.internal.cloudapp.net/

Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Souradeep Chakrabarti <schakrabarti@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>