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Commit f1d26976 authored by Mike Christie's avatar Mike Christie Committed by Martin K. Petersen
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scsi: iscsi: Run recv path from workqueue

We don't always want to run the recv path from the network softirq because
when we have to have multiple sessions sharing the same CPUs, some sessions
can eat up the NAPI softirq budget and affect other sessions or users.

Allow us to queue the recv handling to the iscsi workqueue so we can have
the scheduler/wq code try to balance the work and CPU use across all
sessions' worker threads.

Note: It wasn't the original intent of the change but a nice side effect is
that for some workloads/configs we get a nice performance boost. For a
simple read heavy test:

  fio --direct=1 --filename=/dev/dm-0  --rw=randread --bs=256K
    --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=128 --numjobs=4

where the iscsi threads, fio jobs, and rps_cpus share CPUs we see a 32%
throughput boost. We also see increases for small I/O IOPs tests but it's
not as high.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220616224557.115234-4-michael.christie@oracle.com


Reviewed-by: default avatarLee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
parent 8af80996
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