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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 13:56:23 -0600
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Subject: Re: cpus_allowed_policy for async IO verification threads
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To: "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" <Elliott@hp.com>, "fio@vger.kernel.org" <fio@vger.kernel.org>
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On 09/04/2014 01:40 PM, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) wrote:
> To accompany cpus_allowed_policy=split, should fio offer
> a verify_async_cpus_allowed_policy=split to bind its
> async IO verification threads to particular CPUs?
> 
>       verify_async_cpus=str
>       Tell fio to set the given CPU affinity on 
> 	the async IO verification threads.  See cpus_allowed for 
> 	the format used.

That would probably not be a bad idea.

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Jens Axboe