Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] restore polling to nvme-rdma

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Add an additional queue mapping for polling queues that will
host polling for latency critical I/O.

One caveat is that we don't want these queues to be pure polling
as we don't want to bother with polling for the initial nvmf connect
I/O. Hence, introduce ib_change_cq_ctx that will modify the cq polling
context from SOFTIRQ to DIRECT.

So do we really care?  Yes, polling for the initial connect is not
exactly efficient, but then again it doesn't happen all that often.

Except for efficiency is there any problem with just starting out
in polling mode?

I found it cumbersome so I didn't really consider it...
Isn't it a bit awkward? we will need to implement polled connect
locally in nvme-rdma (because fabrics doesn't know anything about
queues, hctx or polling).

I'm open to looking at it if you think that this is better. Note that if
we had the CQ in our hands, we would do exactly what we did here
effectively: use interrupt for the connect and then simply not
re-arm it again and poll... Should we poll the connect just because
we are behind the CQ API?



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