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From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>,
	Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] block: strict rq_affinity
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:41:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2B15DB.4090302@fusionio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110722205938.17420.68621.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>

On 2011-07-22 22:59, Dan Williams wrote:
> Some storage controllers benefit from completions always being steered
> to the strict requester cpu rather than the looser "per-socket" steering
> that blk_cpu_to_group() attempts by default.
> 
> echo 2 > /sys/block/<bdev>/queue/rq_affinity

I have applied this one, with a modified patch description.

I like the adaptive solution, but it should be rewritten to not declare
and expose softirq internals. Essentially have an API from
kernel/softirq.c that can return whether a given (or perhaps just local)
softirq handler is busy or not.


-- 
Jens Axboe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-23 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-22 20:59 [RFC PATCH 0/2] block: rq_affinity performance fixes Dan Williams
2011-07-22 20:59 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] block: strict rq_affinity Dan Williams
2011-07-23  1:46   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-23 18:38     ` Jens Axboe
2011-07-23 18:41   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2011-07-25  1:14     ` Shaohua Li
2011-07-25  8:21       ` Jens Axboe
2011-07-22 20:59 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] block: adaptive rq_affinity Dan Williams

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