On 9/19/2014 3:56 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> [PATCH 1/8] blk-mq: Use all available hardware queues
>
> Suppose that a system has two CPU sockets, three cores per socket,
> that it does not support hyperthreading and that four hardware
> queues are provided by a block driver. With the current algorithm
> this will lead to the following assignment of CPU cores to hardware
> queues:
>
> HWQ 0: 0 1
> HWQ 1: 2 3
> HWQ 2: 4 5
> HWQ 3: (none)
>
> This patch changes the queue assignment into:
>
> HWQ 0: 0 1
> HWQ 1: 2
> HWQ 2: 3 4
> HWQ 3: 5
>
> In other words, this patch has the following three effects:
> - All four hardware queues are used instead of only three.
> - CPU cores are spread more evenly over hardware queues. For the
> above example the range of the number of CPU cores associated
> with a single HWQ is reduced from [0..2] to [1..2].
> - If the number of HWQ's is a multiple of the number of CPU sockets
> it is now guaranteed that all CPU cores associated with a single
> HWQ reside on the same CPU socket.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> block/blk-mq-cpumap.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/blk-mq-cpumap.c b/block/blk-mq-cpumap.c
> index 1065d7c..8e56455 100644
> --- a/block/blk-mq-cpumap.c
> +++ b/block/blk-mq-cpumap.c
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
> static int cpu_to_queue_index(unsigned int nr_cpus, unsigned int nr_queues,
> const int cpu)
> {
> - return cpu / ((nr_cpus + nr_queues - 1) / nr_queues);
> + return cpu * nr_queues / nr_cpus;
> }
>
> static int get_first_sibling(unsigned int cpu)
>
Seems reasonable enough.
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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