Hi,

These patches I have pushed to gerrithub implement setting CPU affinity
of decoder/worker/sender threads.

On a multiprocessor system, setting the CPU affinity mask can improve
performance. We already tested it on a NUMA machine, and had obtained
performance benifits. Since that, I provided a configurable way to set the
CPU affinity of decoder/worker/sender threads. People using nfs-ganesha can
arbitrarily tune the bind status of those threads through amending these
config items below:

* Decoder_Cpus_Allowed: set CPU affinity, it's a comma-delimited list
  of CPU numbers the decoder threads may run on
* Decoder_Cpumask: the same as Decoder_Cpus_Allowed, but it allows a
  comma-hexadecimal value of allowed cpus
* Decoder_Policy: Set the policy of how ntirpc distributes the CPUs,
  split or shared is allowed
* Worker_Cpus_Allowed/Worker_Cpumask/Worker_Policy: configurations about
  worker threads
* Sender_Cpus_Allowed/Sender_Cpumask/Sender_Plicy: configurations about
  sender threads

The patch "add configurations about setting CPU affinity of sender threads"
should be used with the patch:
"[PATCH] ntitpc: implement setting CPU affinity of sender threads".

The patch "tune the place of svc_init" is based on the patch:
"[PATCH] ntirpc: remove redundant assignment of ->warnx"
or warnx will be assigned to default.

TODO list:
- introduce the configurations of the scheduler class and priority for
  those threads

thanks,
Wei

Wei Fang (7):
  add term of delimitation
  add new config item type of CONFIG_CPUS_ALLOWED
  implement setting CPU affinity of decoder threads
  implement setting CPU affinity of worker threads
  add configurations about setting CPU affinity of sender threads
  introduce cpumask configuration to set CPU affinity
  tune the place of svc_init


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