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Commit a46c2702 authored by Ming Lei's avatar Ming Lei Committed by Jens Axboe
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blk-mq: don't schedule block kworker on isolated CPUs



Kernel parameter of `isolcpus=` or 'nohz_full=' are used to isolate CPUs
for specific task, and it isn't expected to let block IO disturb these CPUs.
blk-mq kworker shouldn't be scheduled on isolated CPUs. Also if isolated
CPUs is run for blk-mq kworker, long block IO latency can be caused.

Kernel workqueue only respects CPU isolation for WQ_UNBOUND, for bound
WQ, the responsibility is on user because CPU is specified as WQ API
parameter, such as mod_delayed_work_on(cpu), queue_delayed_work_on(cpu)
and queue_work_on(cpu).

So not run blk-mq kworker on isolated CPUs by removing isolated CPUs
from hctx->cpumask. Meantime use queue map to check if all CPUs in this
hw queue are offline instead of hctx->cpumask, this way can avoid any
cost in fast IO code path, and is safe since hctx->cpumask are only
used in the two cases.

Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Theurer <atheurer@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Sebastian Jug <sejug@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tesed-by: default avatarJoe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEwan D. Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240322021244.1056223-1-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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