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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt index f65274081c8d..d8147b336c35 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt @@ -45,9 +45,13 @@ device. rq_affinity (RW) ---------------- -If this option is enabled, the block layer will migrate request completions -to the CPU that originally submitted the request. For some workloads -this provides a significant reduction in CPU cycles due to caching effects. +If this option is '1', the block layer will migrate request completions to the +cpu "group" that originally submitted the request. For some workloads this +provides a significant reduction in CPU cycles due to caching effects. + +For storage configurations that need to maximize distribution of completion +processing setting this option to '2' forces the completion to run on the +requesting cpu (bypassing the "group" aggregation logic). scheduler (RW) -------------- |