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From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Subject: Re: SCSI core patches for kernel 3.12
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:15:04 +0200
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On 08/20/13 18:11, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 14:05 +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> This patch series consists of four patches that address device removal
>> issues and three patches that improve performance of the SCSI mid-layer.
>
> Perhaps it would be useful to know what the performance improvement
> actually is..?  Eg: fio numbers before and after.

The optimizations in this patch series are micro-optimizations. Their 
performance impact is small but measurable. Peak IOPS results are 
improved by about 1% by each of these performance improvements for a 
low-latency transport.

Bart.