net: mana: Optimize irq affinity for low vcpu configs

Before the commit 755391121038 ("net: mana: Allocate MSI-X vectors
dynamically"), all the MANA IRQs were assigned statically and together
during early driver load.

After this commit, the IRQ allocation for MANA was done in two phases.
HWC IRQ allocated earlier and then, queue IRQs dynamically added at a
later point. By this time, the IRQ weights on vCPUs can become imbalanced
and if IRQ count is greater than the vCPU count the topology aware IRQ
distribution logic in MANA can cause multiple MANA IRQs to land on the
same vCPUs, while other sibling vCPUs have none (case 1).

On SMP enabled, low-vCPU systems, this becomes a bigger problem as the
softIRQ handling overhead of two IRQs on the same vCPUs becomes much more
than their overheads if they were spread across sibling vCPUs.

In such cases when many parallel TCP connections are tested, the
throughput drops significantly.

Fix the affinity assignment logic, in cases where the IRQ count is greater
than the vCPU count and when IRQs are added dynamically, by utilizing all
the vCPUs irrespective of their NUMA/core bindings (case 2).

The results of setting the affinity and hint to NULL were also studied,
and we observed that, with this logic if there are pre-existing IRQs
allocated on the VM (apart from MANA), during MANA IRQs allocation, it
leads to clustering of the MANA queue IRQs again (case 3).

=======================================================
Case 1: without this patch
=======================================================
4 vcpu(2 cores), 5 MANA IRQs (1 HWC + 4 Queue)

	TYPE		effective vCPU aff
=======================================================
IRQ0:	HWC		0
IRQ1:	mana_q1		0
IRQ2:	mana_q2		2
IRQ3:	mana_q3		0
IRQ4:	mana_q4		3

%soft on each vCPU(mpstat -P ALL 1) on receiver
vCPU		0	1	2	3
=======================================================
pass 1:		38.85	0.03	24.89	24.65
pass 2:		39.15	0.03	24.57	25.28
pass 3:		40.36	0.03	23.20	23.17

=======================================================
Case 2: with this patch
=======================================================
4 vcpu(2 cores), 5 MANA IRQs (1 HWC + 4 Queue)

        TYPE            effective vCPU aff
=======================================================
IRQ0:   HWC             0
IRQ1:   mana_q1         0
IRQ2:   mana_q2         1
IRQ3:   mana_q3         2
IRQ4:   mana_q4         3

%soft on each vCPU(mpstat -P ALL 1) on receiver
vCPU            0       1       2       3
=======================================================
pass 1:         15.42	15.85	14.99	14.51
pass 2:         15.53	15.94	15.81	15.93
pass 3:         16.41	16.35	16.40	16.36

=======================================================
Case 3: with affinity set to NULL
=======================================================
4 vCPU(2 cores), 5 MANA IRQs (1 HWC + 4 Queue)

	TYPE		effective vCPU aff
=======================================================
IRQ0:	HWC			0
IRQ1:	mana_q1			2
IRQ2:	mana_q2			3
IRQ3:	mana_q3			2
IRQ4:	mana_q4			3

=======================================================
Throughput Impact(in Gbps, same env)
=======================================================
TCP conn	with patch	w/o patch	aff NULL
20480		15.65		7.73		5.25
10240		15.63		8.93		5.77
8192		15.64		9.69		7.16
6144		15.64		13.16		9.33
4096		15.69		15.75		13.50
2048		15.69		15.83		13.61
1024		15.71		15.28		13.60

Fixes: 755391121038 ("net: mana: Allocate MSI-X vectors dynamically")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Co-developed-by: Erni Sri Satya Vennela <ernis@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Erni Sri Satya Vennela <ernis@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Shradha Gupta <shradhagupta@linux.microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624072138.1632849-1-shradhagupta@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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