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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
To: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>, Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org" <linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvme-pci: poll IO after batch submission for multi-mapping queue
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 23:44:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6c7e2faf-6f2b-2b43-00af-512334f2a49a@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4664ca6f-2ebb-c69c-5b7f-226a86394adf@grimberg.me>

On 11/12/19 9:35 AM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
>>> The correct place that should optimize the polling is aio/io_uring and
>>> not the driver locally IMO. Adding blk_poll to aio_getevents like
>>> io_uring would be a lot better I think..
>>
>> This poll is actually one-shot poll, and I shouldn't call it poll, and
>> it should have been called as 'check cq'.
>>
>> I believe it has been tried for supporting aio poll before, seems not
>> successful.
> 
> Is there a fundamental reason why it can work for io_uring and cannot
> work for aio?

I did that work (called it aio-ring), you need at least a new system
call to support setting up an aio io_context to do polling. Since we now
have better alternatives, it'd be a waste of time to try and support it
with aio.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-12 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-08  3:55 [PATCH 0/2] nvme-pci: improve IO performance via poll after batch submission Ming Lei
2019-11-08  3:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] nvme-pci: move sq/cq_poll lock initialization into nvme_init_queue Ming Lei
2019-11-08  4:12   ` Keith Busch
2019-11-08  7:09     ` Ming Lei
2019-11-08  3:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] nvme-pci: poll IO after batch submission for multi-mapping queue Ming Lei
2019-11-11 20:44   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-12  0:33     ` Long Li
2019-11-12  1:35       ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-11-12  2:39       ` Ming Lei
2019-11-12 16:25         ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-11-12 16:49           ` Keith Busch
2019-11-12 17:29             ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-11-13  3:05               ` Ming Lei
2019-11-13  3:17                 ` Keith Busch
2019-11-13  3:57                   ` Ming Lei
2019-11-12 21:20         ` Long Li
2019-11-12 21:36           ` Keith Busch
2019-11-13  0:50             ` Long Li
2019-11-13  2:24           ` Ming Lei
2019-11-12  2:07     ` Ming Lei
2019-11-12  1:44   ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-11-12  9:56     ` Ming Lei
2019-11-12 17:35       ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-11-12 21:17         ` Long Li
2019-11-12 23:44         ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2019-11-13  2:47         ` Ming Lei
2019-11-12 18:11   ` Nadolski, Edmund
2019-11-13 13:46     ` Ming Lei

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