On 01/11/2017 06:43 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to attend LSF/MM and would like to discuss polling for block drivers. > > Currently there is blk-iopoll but it is neither as widely used as NAPI in the > networking field and accoring to Sagi's findings in [1] performance with > polling is not on par with IRQ usage. > > On LSF/MM I'd like to whether it is desirable to have NAPI like polling in > more block drivers and how to overcome the currently seen performance issues.
It would be an interesting topic to discuss, as it is a shame that blk-iopoll isn't used more widely. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
