scsi: target: core: Make completion affinity configurable
It may not always be best to complete the IO on same CPU as it was submitted on. This commit allows userspace to configure it. This has been useful for vhost-scsi where we have a single thread for submissions and completions. If we force the completion on the submission CPU we may be adding conflicts with what the user has setup in the lower levels with settings like the block layer rq_affinity or the driver's IRQ or softirq (the network's rps_cpus value) settings. We may also want to set it up where the vhost thread runs on CPU N and does its submissions/completions there, and then have LIO do its completion booking on CPU M, but can't configure the lower levels due to issues like using dm-multipath with lots of paths (the path selector can throw commands all over the system because it's only taking into account latency/throughput at its level). The new setting is in: /sys/kernel/config/target/$fabric/$target/param/cmd_completion_affinity ...
Please register or sign in to comment