From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xose Vazquez Perez Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 22:33:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] multipath-tools: add info about IO affinity path selector to manpage Added in 5.11: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e4d2e82b2300b03f66b3ca8417590c86e661fab1 Cc: Mike Christie Cc: Martin Wilck Cc: Benjamin Marzinski Cc: Christophe Varoqui Cc: DM-DEVEL ML Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski --- multipath/multipath.conf.5 | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/multipath/multipath.conf.5 b/multipath/multipath.conf.5 index d6b8c7f6..42a15ffd 100644 --- a/multipath/multipath.conf.5 +++ b/multipath/multipath.conf.5 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ .\" .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- . -.TH MULTIPATH.CONF 5 2018-05-21 Linux +.TH MULTIPATH.CONF 5 2021-09-08 Linux . . .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -210,6 +210,10 @@ of outstanding I/O to the path and its relative throughput. estimation of future service time based on the history of previous I/O submitted to each path. .TP +.I "io-affinity 0" +(Since 5.11 kernel) Choose the path for the next bunch of I/O based on a CPU to +path mapping the user passes in and what CPU we are executing on. +.TP The default is: \fBservice-time 0\fR .RE .