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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index bee4deca774a..6a637b5c24b5 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ void bio_init(struct bio *bio)
 {
 	memset(bio, 0, sizeof(*bio));
 	bio->bi_flags = 1 << BIO_UPTODATE;
+	bio->bi_comp_cpu = -1;
 	atomic_set(&bio->bi_cnt, 1);
 }