From: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v13 5/8] blk-mq: use hk cpus only when isolcpus=io_queue is enabled
Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 20:55:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260513005509.135966-6-atomlin@atomlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260513005509.135966-1-atomlin@atomlin.com>
From: Daniel Wagner <wagi@kernel.org>
Extend the capabilities of the generic CPU to hardware queue (hctx)
mapping code, so it maps houskeeping CPUs and isolated CPUs to the
hardware queues evenly.
A hctx is only operational when there is at least one online
housekeeping CPU assigned (aka active_hctx). Thus, check the final
mapping that there is no hctx which has only offline housekeeing CPU and
online isolated CPUs.
Example mapping result:
16 online CPUs
isolcpus=io_queue,2-3,6-7,12-13
Queue mapping:
hctx0: default 0 2
hctx1: default 1 3
hctx2: default 4 6
hctx3: default 5 7
hctx4: default 8 12
hctx5: default 9 13
hctx6: default 10
hctx7: default 11
hctx8: default 14
hctx9: default 15
IRQ mapping:
irq 42 affinity 0 effective 0 nvme0q0
irq 43 affinity 0 effective 0 nvme0q1
irq 44 affinity 1 effective 1 nvme0q2
irq 45 affinity 4 effective 4 nvme0q3
irq 46 affinity 5 effective 5 nvme0q4
irq 47 affinity 8 effective 8 nvme0q5
irq 48 affinity 9 effective 9 nvme0q6
irq 49 affinity 10 effective 10 nvme0q7
irq 50 affinity 11 effective 11 nvme0q8
irq 51 affinity 14 effective 14 nvme0q9
irq 52 affinity 15 effective 15 nvme0q10
A corner case is when the number of online CPUs and present CPUs
differ and the driver asks for less queues than online CPUs, e.g.
8 online CPUs, 16 possible CPUs
isolcpus=io_queue,2-3,6-7,12-13
virtio_blk.num_request_queues=2
Queue mapping:
hctx0: default 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 12 13
hctx1: default 9 10 11 14 15
IRQ mapping
irq 27 affinity 0 effective 0 virtio0-config
irq 28 affinity 0-1,4-5,8 effective 5 virtio0-req.0
irq 29 affinity 9-11,14-15 effective 0 virtio0-req.1
Noteworthy is that for the normal/default configuration (!isoclpus) the
mapping will change for systems which have non hyperthreading CPUs. The
main assignment loop will completely rely that group_mask_cpus_evenly to
do the right thing. The old code would distribute the CPUs linearly over
the hardware context:
queue mapping for /dev/nvme0n1
hctx0: default 0 8
hctx1: default 1 9
hctx2: default 2 10
hctx3: default 3 11
hctx4: default 4 12
hctx5: default 5 13
hctx6: default 6 14
hctx7: default 7 15
The assign each hardware context the map generated by the
group_mask_cpus_evenly function:
queue mapping for /dev/nvme0n1
hctx0: default 0 1
hctx1: default 2 3
hctx2: default 4 5
hctx3: default 6 7
hctx4: default 8 9
hctx5: default 10 11
hctx6: default 12 13
hctx7: default 14 15
In case of hyperthreading CPUs, the resulting map stays the same.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <wagi@kernel.org>
[atomlin:
- Updated blk_mq_validate() to use test_bit() for the new bitmap
- Replaced __free cleanups with traditional goto unwinding to align
with subsystem styling
- Updated blk_mq_map_fallback() to use qmap->queue_offset ensuring
secondary maps do not incorrectly route to the primary default map
- Added a bitmap_empty() check to prevent out-of-bounds CPU routing
when all mapped CPUs are offline
- Migrated active_hctx to a dynamically sized bitmap to fix an
out-of-bounds write when hardware queues exceed the system CPU
count
- Fixed absolute vs. relative hardware queue index mix-up in
blk_mq_map_queues() and validation checks
- Fixed typographical errors
- Reduced stack frame size of blk_mq_num_queues()
- Resolved a TOCTOU race against CPU hotplug events by snapshotting
cpu_online_mask to ensure mapping and validation phases agree
- Corrected a loop overwrite bug in blk_mq_map_queues() by iterating
directly over masks to prevent orphaned queues from being activated
- Restored topology-aware multi-queue fallback in
blk_mq_map_hw_queues() for devices lacking IRQ affinity hints
- Hardened isolation logic in blk_mq_map_hw_queues() to require online
housekeeping CPUs before marking a hardware queue as active
- Optimised active queue evaluations by short-circuiting redundant
checks once a valid CPU is found]
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
---
block/blk-mq-cpumap.c | 224 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 207 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-mq-cpumap.c b/block/blk-mq-cpumap.c
index 705da074ad6c..f953714d190c 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-cpumap.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-cpumap.c
@@ -22,7 +22,11 @@ static unsigned int blk_mq_num_queues(const struct cpumask *mask,
{
unsigned int num;
- num = cpumask_weight(mask);
+ if (housekeeping_enabled(HK_TYPE_IO_QUEUE))
+ num = cpumask_weight_and(mask, housekeeping_cpumask(HK_TYPE_IO_QUEUE));
+ else
+ num = cpumask_weight(mask);
+
return min_not_zero(num, max_queues);
}
@@ -33,7 +37,8 @@ static unsigned int blk_mq_num_queues(const struct cpumask *mask,
* ignored.
*
* Calculates the number of queues to be used for a multiqueue
- * device based on the number of possible CPUs.
+ * device based on the number of possible CPUs. This helper
+ * takes isolcpus settings into account.
*/
unsigned int blk_mq_num_possible_queues(unsigned int max_queues)
{
@@ -48,7 +53,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_mq_num_possible_queues);
* ignored.
*
* Calculates the number of queues to be used for a multiqueue
- * device based on the number of online CPUs.
+ * device based on the number of online CPUs. This helper
+ * takes isolcpus settings into account.
*/
unsigned int blk_mq_num_online_queues(unsigned int max_queues)
{
@@ -56,23 +62,139 @@ unsigned int blk_mq_num_online_queues(unsigned int max_queues)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_mq_num_online_queues);
+static bool blk_mq_validate(struct blk_mq_queue_map *qmap,
+ const unsigned long *active_hctx,
+ const struct cpumask *online_mask)
+{
+ /*
+ * Verify if the mapping is usable when housekeeping
+ * configuration is enabled
+ */
+ for (int queue = 0; queue < qmap->nr_queues; queue++) {
+ int cpu;
+
+ if (test_bit(queue, active_hctx)) {
+ /*
+ * This hctx has at least one online CPU thus it
+ * is able to serve any assigned isolated CPU.
+ */
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * There is no housekeeping online CPU for this hctx, all
+ * good as long as all non-housekeeping CPUs are also
+ * offline.
+ */
+ for_each_cpu(cpu, online_mask) {
+ if (qmap->mq_map[cpu] != qmap->queue_offset + queue)
+ continue;
+
+ pr_warn("Unable to create a usable CPU-to-queue mapping with the given constraints\n");
+ return false;
+ }
+ }
+
+ return true;
+}
+
+static void blk_mq_map_fallback(struct blk_mq_queue_map *qmap)
+{
+ unsigned int cpu;
+
+ /*
+ * Map all CPUs to the first hctx of this specific map to ensure
+ * at least one online CPU is serving it, respecting the map's
+ * boundaries so secondary maps do not route into the default map.
+ */
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
+ qmap->mq_map[cpu] = qmap->queue_offset;
+}
+
void blk_mq_map_queues(struct blk_mq_queue_map *qmap)
{
- const struct cpumask *masks;
+ struct cpumask *masks;
+ const struct cpumask *constraint;
unsigned int queue, cpu, nr_masks;
+ unsigned long *active_hctx;
+ cpumask_var_t online_mask;
- masks = group_cpus_evenly(qmap->nr_queues, &nr_masks);
- if (!masks) {
- for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
- qmap->mq_map[cpu] = qmap->queue_offset;
- return;
- }
+ active_hctx = bitmap_zalloc(qmap->nr_queues, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!active_hctx)
+ goto fallback;
- for (queue = 0; queue < qmap->nr_queues; queue++) {
- for_each_cpu(cpu, &masks[queue % nr_masks])
+ if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&online_mask, GFP_KERNEL))
+ goto free_fallback_hctx;
+
+ /*
+ * Snapshot online CPUs to prevent TOCTOU races between the
+ * mapping phase and the validation phase.
+ */
+ cpumask_copy(online_mask, cpu_online_mask);
+
+ if (housekeeping_enabled(HK_TYPE_IO_QUEUE))
+ constraint = housekeeping_cpumask(HK_TYPE_IO_QUEUE);
+ else
+ constraint = cpu_possible_mask;
+
+ /* Map CPUs to the hardware contexts (hctx) */
+ masks = group_mask_cpus_evenly(qmap->nr_queues, constraint, &nr_masks);
+ if (!masks)
+ goto free_fallback;
+
+ /*
+ * Iterate directly over the generated CPU masks.
+ * Calculate the final, highest hardware queue index that maps to this
+ * mask. This skips all intermediate overwrites and safely evaluates
+ * active_hctx only for queues that survive the mapping.
+ */
+ for (unsigned int idx = 0; idx < nr_masks; idx++) {
+ bool active = false;
+ queue = qmap->nr_queues - 1 -
+ ((qmap->nr_queues - 1 - idx) % nr_masks);
+
+ for_each_cpu(cpu, &masks[idx]) {
qmap->mq_map[cpu] = qmap->queue_offset + queue;
+
+ if (!active && cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, online_mask)) {
+ __set_bit(queue, active_hctx);
+ active = true;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If all CPUs in the generated masks are offline, the active_hctx
+ * bitmap will be empty. Attempting to route unassigned CPUs to an
+ * empty bitmap will map them out-of-bounds. Fall back instead.
+ */
+ if (bitmap_empty(active_hctx, qmap->nr_queues))
+ goto free_fallback;
+
+ /* Map any unassigned CPU evenly to the hardware contexts (hctx) */
+ queue = find_first_bit(active_hctx, qmap->nr_queues);
+ for_each_cpu_andnot(cpu, cpu_possible_mask, constraint) {
+ qmap->mq_map[cpu] = qmap->queue_offset + queue;
+ queue = find_next_bit_wrap(active_hctx, qmap->nr_queues, queue + 1);
}
+
+ if (!blk_mq_validate(qmap, active_hctx, online_mask))
+ goto free_fallback;
+
kfree(masks);
+ free_cpumask_var(online_mask);
+ bitmap_free(active_hctx);
+
+ return;
+
+free_fallback:
+ kfree(masks);
+ free_cpumask_var(online_mask);
+free_fallback_hctx:
+ bitmap_free(active_hctx);
+
+fallback:
+ blk_mq_map_fallback(qmap);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_mq_map_queues);
@@ -109,24 +231,92 @@ void blk_mq_map_hw_queues(struct blk_mq_queue_map *qmap,
struct device *dev, unsigned int offset)
{
- const struct cpumask *mask;
+ cpumask_var_t mask, online_mask;
+ const struct cpumask *constraint;
+ unsigned long *active_hctx;
unsigned int queue, cpu;
if (!dev->bus->irq_get_affinity)
+ goto map_software;
+
+ active_hctx = bitmap_zalloc(qmap->nr_queues, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!active_hctx)
+ goto fallback;
+
+ if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&mask, GFP_KERNEL)) {
+ bitmap_free(active_hctx);
goto fallback;
+ }
+
+ if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&online_mask, GFP_KERNEL))
+ goto free_fallback_mask;
+ if (housekeeping_enabled(HK_TYPE_IO_QUEUE))
+ constraint = housekeeping_cpumask(HK_TYPE_IO_QUEUE);
+ else
+ constraint = cpu_possible_mask;
+
+ /*
+ * Snapshot online CPUs to prevent TOCTOU races between the
+ * mapping phase and the validation phase.
+ */
+ cpumask_copy(online_mask, cpu_online_mask);
+
+ /* Map CPUs to the hardware contexts (hctx) */
for (queue = 0; queue < qmap->nr_queues; queue++) {
- mask = dev->bus->irq_get_affinity(dev, queue + offset);
- if (!mask)
- goto fallback;
+ const struct cpumask *affinity_mask;
+ bool active = false;
+
+ affinity_mask = dev->bus->irq_get_affinity(dev, offset + queue);
+ if (!affinity_mask)
+ goto free_fallback;
- for_each_cpu(cpu, mask)
+ for_each_cpu(cpu, affinity_mask) {
qmap->mq_map[cpu] = qmap->queue_offset + queue;
+
+ cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mask);
+ if (!active && cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, online_mask) &&
+ cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, constraint)) {
+ __set_bit(queue, active_hctx);
+ active = true;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If all CPUs assigned to this map are offline, the bitmap will
+ * be empty. Fall back instead of routing out of bounds.
+ */
+ if (bitmap_empty(active_hctx, qmap->nr_queues))
+ goto free_fallback;
+
+ /* Map any unassigned CPU evenly to the hardware contexts (hctx) */
+ queue = find_first_bit(active_hctx, qmap->nr_queues);
+ for_each_cpu_andnot(cpu, cpu_possible_mask, mask) {
+ qmap->mq_map[cpu] = qmap->queue_offset + queue;
+ queue = find_next_bit_wrap(active_hctx, qmap->nr_queues, queue + 1);
}
+ if (!blk_mq_validate(qmap, active_hctx, online_mask))
+ goto free_fallback;
+
+ bitmap_free(active_hctx);
+ free_cpumask_var(mask);
+ free_cpumask_var(online_mask);
+
return;
+free_fallback:
+ free_cpumask_var(online_mask);
+free_fallback_mask:
+ bitmap_free(active_hctx);
+ free_cpumask_var(mask);
+
fallback:
+ blk_mq_map_fallback(qmap);
+ return;
+
+map_software:
blk_mq_map_queues(qmap);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_mq_map_hw_queues);
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-13 0:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-13 0:55 [PATCH v13 0/8] blk: honor isolcpus configuration Aaron Tomlin
2026-05-13 0:55 ` [PATCH v13 1/8] scsi: aacraid: use block layer helpers to calculate num of queues Aaron Tomlin
2026-05-13 0:55 ` [PATCH v13 2/8] lib/group_cpus: remove dead !SMP code Aaron Tomlin
2026-05-13 0:55 ` [PATCH v13 3/8] lib/group_cpus: Add group_mask_cpus_evenly() Aaron Tomlin
2026-05-13 0:55 ` [PATCH v13 4/8] isolation: Introduce io_queue isolcpus type Aaron Tomlin
2026-05-13 0:55 ` Aaron Tomlin [this message]
2026-05-13 0:55 ` [PATCH v13 6/8] blk-mq: prevent offlining hk CPUs with associated online isolated CPUs Aaron Tomlin
2026-05-13 0:55 ` [PATCH v13 7/8] genirq/affinity: Restrict managed IRQ affinity to housekeeping CPUs Aaron Tomlin
2026-05-13 0:55 ` [PATCH v13 8/8] docs: add io_queue flag to isolcpus Aaron Tomlin
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