On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 08:37:10AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Looking closer do I _really_ need that for blk-mq? > >From my understanding any hctx can only run on one dedicated cpu, to > which the hctx is bound. That's not the case. A hctx exists for each hardware queue, and a CPU must be mapped to a hctx. So if you have less hctx than CPUs (e.g. just one) you have multiple CPUs that could submit on a hctx. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html