Re: [PATCH 4/4] ahci: switch from 'threaded' to 'hardirq' interrupt handling

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On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 05:09:46PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> For high frequency I/O the overhead of threaded interrupts impacts
> performance.  Add an option to make it configurable, with the default
> being hardirq.
> 
> A quick out-of-the-box test (i.e. no affinity tuning) shows ~10% random
> read performance at ~20% less cpu.  The cpu wins appear to be from
> reduced lock contention.

Do we need threaded irq at all?  Why not just switch to hardirq?

Thanks.

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tejun
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