Re: [PATCH 0/3]: blk-iopoll, a polled completion API for blockdevices

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Aug 11 2009 - 13:14:35 EST


On Tue, Aug 11 2009, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jens Axboe<jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 11 2009, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Anyway, YMMV, I would appreciate some test results (and as usual, that
> >> > even includes just saying that it boots and functions for you). If
> >> > people feel adventurous, patches for other controllers will be happily
> >> > queued up for testing. I may even be convinced to implement support
> >> > for your controller of choice, if you have some fast storage hooked up
> >> > and would like to experiment. Generally, adding support to a driver is
> >> > not very hard and the two conversions included were also meant to serve
> >> > as an inspiration.
> >>
> >> Sounds very interesting. Have you already considered patching the SRP
> >> initiator ? During the SRP performance tests I ran CPU usage on the
> >> initiator was more than 95% and on the target less than 10%.
> >
> > No I haven't, if you point me at which srp files, I can take a look.
>
> The relevant source files are:
> include/scsi/srp.h
> include/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.h
> drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.h
> drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c
> drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c
> drivers/scsi/libsrp.c
> drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp_internal.h

I can find | grep too :-)

Did you profile this? Where did it burn all the CPU time on the
initiator side?

--
Jens Axboe

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