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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
To: "Matias Bjørling" <m@bjorling.me>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Convert from bio-based to blk-mq
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 09:10:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131008131036.GC7422@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1381224862-5299-1-git-send-email-m@bjorling.me>

On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 11:34:20AM +0200, Matias Bjørling wrote:
> The nvme driver implements itself as a bio-based driver. This primarily because
> of high lock congestion for high-performance nvm devices. To remove the
> congestion, a multi-queue block layer is being implemented.

Um, no.  You'll crater performance by adding another memory allocation
(of the struct request).  multi-queue is not the solution.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-08 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-08  9:34 [PATCH RFC 0/2] Convert from bio-based to blk-mq Matias Bjørling
2013-10-08  9:34 ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] blk-mq: call exit_hctx on hw queue teardown Matias Bjørling
2013-10-08  9:34 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] NVMe: rfc blk-mq support Matias Bjørling
2013-10-08 20:59   ` Keith Busch
2013-10-09  7:12     ` Matias Bjørling
2013-10-08 13:10 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2013-10-08 13:19   ` [PATCH RFC 0/2] Convert from bio-based to blk-mq Matias Bjørling
2013-10-08 18:39   ` Jens Axboe
2013-10-09 15:48     ` Keith Busch

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