On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 05:23:39PM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de> wrote:
> > The new name is irq_poll as iopoll is already taken.  Better suggestions
> > welcome.
> 
> Sagi (or Christoph if you can address that),
> 
> @ some pointer over the last 18 months there was a port done at
> mellanox for iser to use blk-iopoll and AFAIR it didn't work well or
> didn't work at all. Can you tell now what was the problem and how did
> you address it at your generalization?

Hi Or,

Sagi mentioned last time he tried a similar approach in iSER he saw
some large latency sparks.  We've seen nothing worse than the original
approach.  The Flash memory summit slide set has some numbers:

http://www.flashmemorysummit.com/English/Collaterals/Proceedings/2015/20150811_FA11_Bandic.pdf

they aren't quite up to date, but the latency distribution hasn't
really changed.
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