From: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
To: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/2] nvme: replace linked list with xarray for ns tracking
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 09:49:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d6d2853f-3600-514b-148c-3943338827d0@grimberg.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200701132137.GA1988944@dhcp-10-100-145-180.wdl.wdc.com>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This is a small patch-series which replaces ctrl->namespaces with
>>> xarray for host-core and target-core. We can see following
>>> performance improvement when running fio with 32 parallel jobs where
>>> first 16 namespaces and last 16 namespaces are used for I/O. See [1] for
>>> detailed performance numbers.
>>
>> Why would that make any difference given that we don't look up namespaces
>> in the I/O path?
>
> Not in host side. Target does a lookup on each IO through:
>
> nvmet_req_init()
> nvmet_parse_io_cmrd()
> nvmet_find_namespaces()
>
> And this detail should be mentioned in the test setup for the cover
> letter, or in patch 2.
Maybe ns scanning performance will improve :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-01 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-01 2:25 [PATCH V2 0/2] nvme: replace linked list with xarray for ns tracking Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-07-01 2:25 ` [PATCH V2 1/2] nvme-core: use xarray for ctrl " Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-07-01 13:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-01 16:44 ` Keith Busch
2020-07-01 18:19 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-07-01 18:29 ` Keith Busch
2020-07-01 18:40 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-07-01 2:25 ` [PATCH V2 2/2] nvmet: use xarray for ctrl ns storing Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-07-01 6:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-01 18:36 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-07-01 5:36 ` [PATCH V2 0/2] nvme: replace linked list with xarray for ns tracking Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-01 13:21 ` Keith Busch
2020-07-01 16:49 ` Sagi Grimberg [this message]
2020-07-01 18:43 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-07-01 18:41 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-07-01 18:41 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
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