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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>,
	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
	Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] percpu_ida: Take into account CPU topology when stealing tags
Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 10:56:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5363CE30.9060102@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140502164305.GA18747@infradead.org>

On 05/02/2014 10:43 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 10:41:40AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> At least for SCSI devices _tag space_ is plenty, it's just the we
>>> artifically limit our tag space to the queue depth to avoid having to
>>> track that one separately.  In addition we also preallocaste a request
>>> for each tag, so even if we would track the queue depth separately
>>> we would waste a lot of memory.
>>
>> In practice it comes out to the same, it's not feasible to run a much
>> larger space and track on queue depth. So I don't think that changes the
>> conclusion for SCSI.
> 
> Agreed.  Just had to check if my smart ass hat still fits this morning..

If not, these are on sale

http://www.cafepress.com/+smartass_trucker_hat,18823771

:-)

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-02 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-26 13:34 [PATCH RFC 0/2] percpu_ida: Take into account CPU topology when stealing tags Alexander Gordeev
2014-03-26 13:34 ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] sched: Introduce topology level masks and for_each_tlm() macro Alexander Gordeev
2014-03-26 13:34 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] percpu_ida: Use for_each_tlm() macro for CPU lookup in steal_tags() Alexander Gordeev
2014-04-22  7:10 ` [PATCH RFC 0/2] percpu_ida: Take into account CPU topology when stealing tags Alexander Gordeev
2014-04-22 14:03   ` Jens Axboe
2014-04-22 15:57     ` Jens Axboe
2014-04-23  0:53       ` Ming Lei
2014-04-23  1:25         ` Jens Axboe
2014-04-25  9:10           ` Ming Lei
2014-04-25 21:23             ` Jens Axboe
2014-04-26  0:01               ` Ming Lei
2014-04-26  2:03                 ` Jens Axboe
2014-04-29 11:35                   ` Ming Lei
2014-04-29 21:13                     ` Jens Axboe
2014-04-30  9:40                       ` Ming Lei
2014-05-01 22:47                       ` Kent Overstreet
2014-05-02  2:19                         ` Jens Axboe
2014-05-02  2:38                           ` Kent Overstreet
2014-05-02  2:44                             ` Jens Axboe
2014-05-02  5:05                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-02 16:41                             ` Jens Axboe
2014-05-02 16:43                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-02 16:56                                 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2014-04-22 11:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-01 21:24   ` Alexander Gordeev
2014-05-01 22:04     ` Alexander Gordeev

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