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From: m@bjorling.me (Matias Bjorling)
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:21:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] Convert from bio-based to blk-mq v2
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On 10/18/2013 05:48 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013@03:14:19PM +0200, Matias Bjorling wrote:
>> Performance study:
>>
>> System: HGST Research NVMe prototype, Haswell i7-4770 3.4Ghz, 32GB 1333Mhz
>
> I don't have one of these.  Can you provide more details about it,
> such as:
>   - How many I/O queues does it have?
>   - Are the interrupts correctly bound to the CPUs (for both sets of tests)?
>     The driver isn't allowed to set the irq affinity correctly itself;
>     it can only set a hint and userspace (eg irqbalance) has to set the
>     affinity correctly
>   - Does it support interrupt coalescing?  If so, have you managed to do any
>     testing using that feature?
>

Current implementation is a driven using a PCI-e Gen2x4 interface, two 
I/O queues. One for admin and one for all other I/Os. I'll check up on 
IRQ affinity when multiple queues are available. I haven't yet tested 
interrupt coalescing.