Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] vhost-scsi: Support worker ioctls

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>]

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On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 06:28:32PM -0600, Mike Christie wrote:
> The following patches allow users to configure the vhost worker threads
> for vhost-scsi. With vhost-net we get a worker thread per rx/tx virtqueue
> pair, but for vhost-scsi we get one worker for all workqueues. This
> becomes a bottlneck after 2 queues are used.
> 
> In the upstream linux kernel commit:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/vhost/vhost.c?id=c1ecd8e9500797748ae4f79657971955d452d69d
> 
> we enabled the vhost layer to be able to create a worker thread and
> attach it to a virtqueue.
> 
> This patchset adds support to vhost-scsi to use these ioctls so we are
> no longer limited to the single worker.
> 
> v2:
> - Make config option a bool instead of an int.
> 
> 

Aside from Stefano's comment asking for a warning when the kernel
doesn't support the vhost worker ioctl:

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

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