On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 10:50:21AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > We could possibly create a special queue > > with interrupts disabled for this purpose if we can pass the HIPRI hint > > through the request. > > Eww. That means we double our resource usage both in the host and > the device, which isn't going to be pretty. Yes, this would create some trouble for our simple policy for divvying queue resources. We wouldn't be able to use the PCI IRQ affinity for these queues CPU map, for example. Maybe if we can figure out a good policy for WRR queues, that might present a similar infrastructure for supporting polled queues as well.
