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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan.Brunelle@hp.com,
	arjan@linux.intel.com, dgc@sgi.com
Subject: Re: IO queuing and complete affinity with threads (was Re: [PATCH 0/8] IO queuing and complete affinity)
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:24:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080208082422.GB15220@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080208081226.GH9730@wotan.suse.de>

On Fri, Feb 08 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:59:55AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 08 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > And if you don't?
> > 
> > Well if you don't ask for anything, you wont get anything :-)
> > As I mentioned, the patch is a playing ground for trying various setups.
> > Everything defaults to 'do as usual', set options to setup certain test
> > scenarios.
> 
> I mean if you don't know the completing CPU.

I still don't know quite what part of that patch you are referring to
here. If you don't have queue_affinity set, queueing a new request with
the hardware is generally done on the same CPU that just completed a
request. That is true even without any patches.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-08  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-07  9:18 [PATCH 0/8] IO queuing and complete affinity Jens Axboe
2008-02-07  9:18 ` [PATCH 1/8] block: split softirq handling into blk-softirq.c Jens Axboe
2008-02-07  9:18 ` [PATCH 2/8] Add interface for queuing work on a specific CPU Jens Axboe
2008-02-07  9:45   ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-07  9:49     ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-07 17:44       ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-11 10:51     ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-02-07  9:19 ` [PATCH 3/8] block: make kblockd_schedule_work() take the queue as parameter Jens Axboe
2008-02-07  9:19 ` [PATCH 4/8] x86: add support for remotely triggering the block softirq Jens Axboe
2008-02-07 10:07   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-07 10:17     ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-07 10:25       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-07 10:31         ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-07 10:38           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-07 14:18             ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-07 10:49           ` [patch] block layer: kmemcheck fixes Ingo Molnar
2008-02-07 17:42             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-07 17:55               ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-07 19:31               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-07 20:06                 ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-08  1:22               ` David Miller
2008-02-08  1:28                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-08 15:09                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-08 22:44                   ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-08 22:56                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-08 23:58                       ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-08 11:38               ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-07  9:19 ` [PATCH 5/8] x86-64: add support for remotely triggering the block softirq Jens Axboe
2008-02-07  9:19 ` [PATCH 6/8] ia64: " Jens Axboe
2008-02-07  9:19 ` [PATCH 7/8] kernel: add generic softirq interface for triggering a remote softirq Jens Axboe
2008-02-07  9:19 ` [PATCH 8/8] block: add test code for testing CPU affinity Jens Axboe
2008-02-07 15:16 ` [PATCH 0/8] IO queuing and complete affinity Alan D. Brunelle
2008-02-07 18:25 ` IO queuing and complete affinity with threads (was Re: [PATCH 0/8] IO queuing and complete affinity) Jens Axboe
2008-02-07 20:40   ` Alan D. Brunelle
2008-02-08  7:38   ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-08  7:47     ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-08  7:53       ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-08  7:59         ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-08  8:12           ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-08  8:24             ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2008-02-08  8:33               ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-11  5:22           ` David Chinner
2008-02-12  8:28             ` Jeremy Higdon

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