Re: [PATCH RFC] iser-target: Use WQ_UNBOUND for completion workqueue

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On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 12:43 +0200, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> On 2/1/2015 9:27 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> > On 1/30/2015 11:42 PM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> >>> Btw Moussa, what ever happened to the mlx4 driver change..?
> >> Mossa's mlx4 patch wasn't the correct way to handle this BUG (mlx4
> >> reserved almost all core EQs for mlx4_en and only 3 for RoCE). The
> >> correct fix is heading upstream and hopefully be included in 3.20
> >
> > Does the benefit brought by this patch comes into play only when either
> > Moussa's hack or the proposed 3.20 mlx4 patch are there, or this is
> > standing alone?
> >
> 
> My recollection was that this patch on it's own gave a nice benefit
> simply because the backend device might be utilizing some cores for
> its own processing and iser can choose another core to poll the cq
> at that time (luckily unbound workqueues are NUMA aware so they will 
> first try to pick in the same numa socket).
> 
> Nic, I forgot to give Moussa a proper credit in this patch. Can you
> add his Signed-off-by please?
> 

Done.  Important to give credit where credit is due.  ;)

--nab

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