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From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
To: "Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
	"James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com" 
	<James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Perfromance drop on SCSI hard disk
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 20:27:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD56104.6080801@fusionio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305793580.22968.155.camel@debian>

On 2011-05-19 10:26, Alex,Shi wrote:
> 
>> I will queue up the combined patch, it looks fine from here as well.
>>
> 
> When I have some time to study Jens and shaohua's patch today. I find a
> simpler way to resolved the re-enter issue on starved_list. Following
> Jens' idea, we can just put the starved_list device into kblockd if it
> come from __scsi_queue_insert(). 
> It can resolve the re-enter issue and recover performance totally, and
> need not a work_struct in every scsi_device. The logic/code also looks a
> bit simpler. 
> What's your opinion of this? 

Isn't this _identical_ to my original patch, with the added async run of
the queue passed in (which is important, an oversight)?

-- 
Jens Axboe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-19 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-10  6:40 Perfromance drop on SCSI hard disk Alex,Shi
2011-05-10  6:52 ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-12  0:36   ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-12 20:29 ` Jens Axboe
2011-05-13  0:11   ` Alex,Shi
2011-05-13  0:48   ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-13  3:01     ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-16  8:04       ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-16  8:37         ` Alex,Shi
2011-05-17  6:09           ` Alex,Shi
2011-05-17  7:20             ` Jens Axboe
2011-05-19  8:26               ` Alex,Shi
2011-05-19  8:47                 ` Alex,Shi
2011-05-19 18:27                 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2011-05-20  0:22                   ` Alex,Shi
2011-05-20  0:40                     ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-20  5:17                       ` Alex,Shi

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