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From: keith.busch@intel.com (Keith Busch)
Subject: [PATCH V3] nvme-pci: add sgl support
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:47:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170810164722.GD14634@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170810085905.GA12494@infradead.org>

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017@01:59:05AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2017@04:48:04AM -0400, Keith Busch wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 01, 2017@08:29:00AM +0000, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> > > [CK] Yes, I've observed approximately %5 better
> > > performance for IO sizes larger than 32k (for sgl_threshold = 32k).
> > 
> > Is that a physically contiguous 32k, or does each 4k require a different
> > SG element? Could you try to force both conditions and see how each
> > scenario compares with PRP?
> 
> How do we find out the segment alignment without walking the list of
> biovecs, which would be rather annoying.

The biovecs already gets walked and iod->nents will tell you how many
physical segments there are.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-08-10 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-26 18:19 [PATCH V3] nvme-pci: add sgl support Chaitanya Kulkarni
2017-07-26 18:19 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2017-07-31  6:30   ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-07-31  6:45 ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-07-31  7:13   ` Keith Busch
2017-07-31 11:18     ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-08-01  8:29   ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2017-08-01  8:48     ` Keith Busch
2017-08-10  8:59       ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-10 16:47         ` Keith Busch [this message]

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