Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Introduce per-task io utilization boost

From: Christian Loehle
Date: Mon Mar 25 2024 - 15:02:14 EST


On 21/03/2024 19:52, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 3/21/24 10:57, Christian Loehle wrote:
>> In the long-term it looks like for UFS the problem will disappear as we are
>> expected to get one queue/hardirq per CPU (as Bart mentioned), on NVMe that
>> is already the case.
>
> Why the focus on storage controllers with a single completion interrupt?
> It probably won't take long (one year?) until all new high-end
> smartphones may have support for multiple completion interrupts.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bart.
>

Apart from going to "This patch shows significant performance improvements on
hardware that runs mainline today" to "This patch will have significant
performance improvements on devices running mainline in a couple years"
nothing in particular.
I'm fine with leaving it with having acknowledged the problem.
Maybe I would just gate the task placement on the task having been in
UFS (with multiple completion interrupts) or NVMe submission recently to
avoid regressions to current behavior in future versions. I did have that
already at some point, although it was a bit hacky.
Anyway, thank you for your input on that, it is what I wanted to hear!

Kind Regards,
Christian