block: add support for IO CPU affinity
This patch adds support for controlling the IO completion CPU of
either all requests on a queue, or on a per-request basis. We export
a sysfs variable (rq_affinity) which, if set, migrates completions
of requests to the CPU that originally submitted it. A bio helper
(bio_set_completion_cpu()) is also added, so that queuers can ask
for completion on that specific CPU.
In testing, this has been show to cut the system time by as much
as 20-40% on synthetic workloads where CPU affinity is desired.
This requires a little help from the architecture, so it'll only
work as designed for archs that are using the new generic smp
helper infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index bee4dec..6a637b5 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@
{
memset(bio, 0, sizeof(*bio));
bio->bi_flags = 1 << BIO_UPTODATE;
+ bio->bi_comp_cpu = -1;
atomic_set(&bio->bi_cnt, 1);
}