[PATCH v7 07/10] isolation: Introduce io_queue isolcpus type

Daniel Wagner wagi at kernel.org
Wed Jul 2 09:33:57 PDT 2025


Multiqueue drivers spread I/O queues across all CPUs for optimal
performance. However, these drivers are not aware of CPU isolation
requirements and will distribute queues without considering the isolcpus
configuration.

Introduce a new isolcpus mask that allows users to define which CPUs
should have I/O queues assigned. This is similar to managed_irq, but
intended for drivers that do not use the managed IRQ infrastructure

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <wagi at kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/sched/isolation.h | 1 +
 kernel/sched/isolation.c        | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/isolation.h b/include/linux/sched/isolation.h
index d8501f4709b583b8a1c91574446382f093bccdb1..6b6ae9c5b2f61a93c649a98ea27482b932627fca 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/isolation.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/isolation.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 enum hk_type {
 	HK_TYPE_DOMAIN,
 	HK_TYPE_MANAGED_IRQ,
+	HK_TYPE_IO_QUEUE,
 	HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE,
 	HK_TYPE_MAX,
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/isolation.c b/kernel/sched/isolation.c
index 93b038d48900a304a29ecc0c8aa8b7d419ea1397..c8cb0cf2b15a11524be73826f38bb2a0709c449c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/isolation.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/isolation.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 enum hk_flags {
 	HK_FLAG_DOMAIN		= BIT(HK_TYPE_DOMAIN),
 	HK_FLAG_MANAGED_IRQ	= BIT(HK_TYPE_MANAGED_IRQ),
+	HK_FLAG_IO_QUEUE	= BIT(HK_TYPE_IO_QUEUE),
 	HK_FLAG_KERNEL_NOISE	= BIT(HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE),
 };
 
@@ -224,6 +225,12 @@ static int __init housekeeping_isolcpus_setup(char *str)
 			continue;
 		}
 
+		if (!strncmp(str, "io_queue,", 9)) {
+			str += 9;
+			flags |= HK_FLAG_IO_QUEUE;
+			continue;
+		}
+
 		/*
 		 * Skip unknown sub-parameter and validate that it is not
 		 * containing an invalid character.

-- 
2.50.0




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