From: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@xxxxxxxxxx> When NOHZ_FULL is enabled, such as in HPC situation, CPUs are divided into housekeeping CPUs and non-housekeeping CPUs. Non-housekeeping CPUs are NOHZ_FULL CPUs and are often monopolized by the userspace process, such HPC application process. Any sort of interruption is not expected. blk_mq_hctx_next_cpu() selects each cpu in 'hctx->cpumask' alternately to schedule the work thread blk_mq_run_work_fn(). When 'hctx->cpumask' contains housekeeping CPU and non-housekeeping CPU at the same time, a housekeeping CPU, which want to request a IO, may schedule a worker on a non-housekeeping CPU. This may affect the performance of the userspace application running on non-housekeeping CPUs. So let's just schedule the worker thread on the current CPU when the current CPU is housekeeping CPU. Signed-off-by: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@xxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-mq.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c index d3494a796ba8..1e84d393cce3 100644 --- a/block/blk-mq.c +++ b/block/blk-mq.c @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #include <linux/llist.h> #include <linux/cpu.h> #include <linux/cache.h> +#include <linux/sched/isolation.h> #include <linux/sched/sysctl.h> #include <linux/sched/topology.h> #include <linux/sched/signal.h> @@ -2245,6 +2246,8 @@ static int blk_mq_hctx_next_cpu(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx) static void __blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, bool async, unsigned long msecs) { + int work_cpu; + if (unlikely(blk_mq_hctx_stopped(hctx))) return; @@ -2255,7 +2258,17 @@ static void __blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, bool async, } } - kblockd_mod_delayed_work_on(blk_mq_hctx_next_cpu(hctx), &hctx->run_work, + /* + * Avoid housekeeping CPUs scheduling a worker on a non-housekeeping + * CPU + */ + if (tick_nohz_full_enabled() && housekeeping_cpu(smp_processor_id(), + HK_TYPE_WQ)) + work_cpu = smp_processor_id(); + else + work_cpu = blk_mq_hctx_next_cpu(hctx); + + kblockd_mod_delayed_work_on(work_cpu, &hctx->run_work, msecs_to_jiffies(msecs)); } -- 2.25.1