on some occasions(depends on iometer configuration) more cores are involved, which is good. however the same iometer configuration will only get 1/4 of the performance comparing to SCST, all other factors are almost identical, the major variable is LIO vs SCST. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Xianghua Xiao <xiaoxianghua@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I used lio-utils to get iscsi working, however during testing I found > out that only 2 out of 12 cores are being used by LIO-TARGET(iblock), > why is that? > > Used SCST in the past and the workload was shared by all the cores by > default, so it's a surprise to me with LIO-iscsi that it picks one > core for Tx and one core for Rx, the rest cores are sitting idle? > > any help is appreciated. > > thanks > xiao -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html