From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roland Dreier Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] IB/srp: use multiple CPU cores more effectively Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:58:49 -0700 Message-ID: References: <201008031602.37294.bvanassche@acm.org> <4C59C34F.2000400@vlnb.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: (Bart Van Assche's message of "Thu, 5 Aug 2010 12:55:17 +0200") Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Bart Van Assche Cc: Vladislav Bolkhovitin , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Roland Dreier , David Dillow , Ralph Campbell List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org > How about adding blk-iopoll support in ib_srp ? blk-iopoll is the NAPI > equivalent for block devices. More information about blk-iopoll can be > found here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/6/395. Wow, I was not aware of that work at all. Thanks for the pointer. Anyway, yes, that does look like it should give a lot of the performance boost of your kthread change without hurting latency as much. - R. -- Roland Dreier || For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/index.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html