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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jejb@linux.ibm.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtio_scsi: implement request batching
Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 11:03:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff7aaa01-022b-f55a-4bb2-c293cfd86bdd@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79490df1-0145-5b40-027a-7e8fb96854d4@acm.org>

On 30/05/19 19:28, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 5/30/19 4:28 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> @@ -531,7 +547,8 @@ static int virtscsi_queuecommand(struct Scsi_Host
>> *shost,
>>           req_size = sizeof(cmd->req.cmd);
>>       }
>>   -    ret = virtscsi_kick_cmd(req_vq, cmd, req_size,
>> sizeof(cmd->resp.cmd));
>> +    kick = (sc->flags & SCMD_LAST) != 0;
>> +    ret = virtscsi_add_cmd(req_vq, cmd, req_size,
>> sizeof(cmd->resp.cmd), kick);
> 
> Have you considered to have the SCSI core call commit_rqs() if bd->last
> is true? I think that would avoid that we need to introduce the
> SCMD_LAST flag and that would also avoid that every SCSI LLD that
> supports a commit_rqs callback has to introduce code to test the
> SCMD_LAST flag.

That is slightly worse for performance, as it unlocks and re-locks the
spinlock.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-31  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-30 11:28 [PATCH 0/2] scsi: add support for request batching Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-30 11:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] scsi_host: " Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-30 15:36   ` Bart Van Assche
2019-05-30 15:54     ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-30 17:54       ` Bart Van Assche
2019-05-31  9:12         ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-31  3:27   ` Ming Lei
2019-06-03  8:16     ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-05  1:00       ` Ming Lei
2019-06-04 22:40   ` Bart Van Assche
2019-06-19  8:11   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-06-19 10:31     ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-04 13:19       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-05  7:12         ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-07-05  7:44           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-05  7:51             ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-05-30 11:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] virtio_scsi: implement " Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-30 17:28   ` Bart Van Assche
2019-05-31  9:03     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2019-07-05  7:52   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-07-08  9:47   ` Ming Lei
2019-06-10 12:36 ` [PATCH 0/2] scsi: add support for " Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-06-26 13:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-06-26 14:14   ` Douglas Gilbert
2019-06-26 14:50     ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-06-27  3:37   ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-06-27  8:17     ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-05  7:13       ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-07-05 11:58         ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-12  1:37           ` Martin K. Petersen

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