Re: nbd: please don't spawn 16 threads when nbd is not even in use

From: Eric Blake
Date: Wed Nov 23 2022 - 15:10:43 EST


On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 12:56:41PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I see this... and it looks like there are 16 workqueues before nbd is
> even used. Surely there are better ways to do that?

Yes, it would be nice to create a pool of workers that only spawns up
threads when actual parallel requests are made. Are you willing to
help write the patch?


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