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guide: storage: CPU affinity docs

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Description

Describe the high level behaviors of CPU affinity for IO. E.g. when a guest issues IO on VP n, what VP does storvsp, the disk backends, and the device backend see? What about for IDE or NVMe frontend storage? When does this fall down, and what's the behavior?

Ideally this would come after a document describing the OpenHCL executor and CPU model.

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No file, test, or entry point is named. First read the planned OpenHCL executor and CPU model documentation, then trace the storage path for guest IO on VP n across storvsp, disk backends, device backends, and IDE or NVMe frontends. Done means the documentation explains normal CPU-affinity behavior and where it breaks down.

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Assessment

Domain
documentation, operating-systems
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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