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From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Subject: [PATCH] NVMe: Re-introduce polling for completions
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 23:56:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160406065604.GA9391@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160405213904.GD12625@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016@09:39:04PM +0000, Keith Busch wrote:
> Before I resend with the requested code comments, I'd like to hear your
> opinion on an alternate solution (patch below).
> 
> Currently the driver uses legacy IRQ if available only until we know how
> many queues it can create. The legacy IRQ use is tripping up some h/w,
> but I've not heard such issues with MSI/MSI-x.
> 
> Would you prefer going straight to MSI-x? The driver does that when
> there is no INTx, but we wouldn't need to poll from the watchdog timer
> if we make MSI-x the default behavior,

I would much prefer that variant over doing crazy non-standard polling.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-06  6:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-04 22:24 [PATCH] NVMe: Re-introduce polling for completions Keith Busch
2016-04-05  7:32 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-04-05 12:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-05 17:54   ` Keith Busch
2016-04-05 21:39     ` Keith Busch
2016-04-05 22:04       ` Judy Brock-SSI
2016-04-05 22:29         ` Keith Busch
2016-04-06  5:22           ` Judy Brock-SSI
2016-04-06  6:56         ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-06  6:56       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-04-12 19:00       ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-12 19:02         ` Christoph Hellwig

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