On 01/11/2017 08:07 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 01/11/2017 06:43 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to attend LSF/MM and would like to discuss polling for block drivers. >> >> Currently there is blk-iopoll but it is neither as widely used as NAPI in the >> networking field and accoring to Sagi's findings in [1] performance with >> polling is not on par with IRQ usage. >> >> On LSF/MM I'd like to whether it is desirable to have NAPI like polling in >> more block drivers and how to overcome the currently seen performance issues. > > It would be an interesting topic to discuss, as it is a shame that blk-iopoll > isn't used more widely. Forgot to mention - it should only be a topic, if experimentation has been done and results gathered to pin point what the issues are, so we have something concrete to discus. I'm not at all interested in a hand wavy discussion on the topic. -- Jens Axboe -- 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
