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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>,
	"lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org"
	<lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC][LSF/MM ATTEND] NAPI polling for block drivers
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:13:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d60d4499-6ed8-0a69-edbf-db205a6dba6a@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc00cc1f-17d7-105e-ef2c-61791b7cc676@kernel.dk>

On 01/11/2017 08:07 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 01/11/2017 06:43 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'd like to attend LSF/MM and would like to discuss polling for block drivers.
>>
>> Currently there is blk-iopoll but it is neither as widely used as NAPI in the
>> networking field and accoring to Sagi's findings in [1] performance with
>> polling is not on par with IRQ usage.
>>
>> On LSF/MM I'd like to whether it is desirable to have NAPI like polling in
>> more block drivers and how to overcome the currently seen performance issues.
> 
> It would be an interesting topic to discuss, as it is a shame that blk-iopoll
> isn't used more widely.

Forgot to mention - it should only be a topic, if experimentation has
been done and results gathered to pin point what the issues are, so we
have something concrete to discus. I'm not at all interested in a hand
wavy discussion on the topic.

-- 
Jens Axboe

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-11 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-11 13:43 [LSF/MM TOPIC][LSF/MM ATTEND] NAPI polling for block drivers Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-11 13:46 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-01-11 15:07 ` Jens Axboe
2017-01-11 15:13   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2017-01-12  8:23     ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-01-12 10:02       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-12 11:44         ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-01-12 12:53           ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-12 14:41             ` [Lsf-pc] " Sagi Grimberg
2017-01-12 18:59               ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-17 15:38       ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-01-17 15:45         ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-01-20 12:22           ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-17 16:15         ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-01-17 16:27           ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-17 16:38             ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-01-18 13:51               ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-18 14:27                 ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-01-18 14:36                   ` Andrey Kuzmin
2017-01-18 14:40                     ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-01-18 15:35                       ` Andrey Kuzmin
2017-01-18 14:58                   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-18 15:14                     ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-01-18 15:16                       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-18 15:39                         ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-01-19  8:12                           ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-01-19  8:23                             ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-01-19  9:18                               ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-19  9:13                             ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-17 16:44         ` Andrey Kuzmin
2017-01-17 16:50           ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-01-18 14:02             ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-01-20  0:13               ` Jens Axboe
2017-01-13 15:56     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-11 15:16   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-01-12  4:36   ` Stephen Bates
2017-01-12  4:44     ` Jens Axboe
2017-01-12  4:56       ` Stephen Bates
2017-01-19 10:57   ` Ming Lei
2017-01-19 11:03     ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-01-11 16:08 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-01-11 16:12   ` hch
2017-01-11 16:15     ` Jens Axboe
2017-01-11 16:22     ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-01-11 16:26       ` Bart Van Assche
2017-01-11 16:45         ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-01-12  8:52         ` sagi grimberg
2017-01-11 16:14   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-12  8:41   ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-01-12 19:13     ` Bart Van Assche

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