From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: willy@linux.intel.com (Matthew Wilcox) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 09:10:36 -0400 Subject: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Convert from bio-based to blk-mq In-Reply-To: <1381224862-5299-1-git-send-email-m@bjorling.me> References: <1381224862-5299-1-git-send-email-m@bjorling.me> Message-ID: <20131008131036.GC7422@linux.intel.com> On Tue, Oct 08, 2013@11:34:20AM +0200, Matias Bj?rling wrote: > The nvme driver implements itself as a bio-based driver. This primarily because > of high lock congestion for high-performance nvm devices. To remove the > congestion, a multi-queue block layer is being implemented. Um, no. You'll crater performance by adding another memory allocation (of the struct request). multi-queue is not the solution.