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From: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: "Koul, Vinod" <vinod.koul@intel.com>,
	"dmaengine@vger.kernel.org" <dmaengine@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] libnvdimm: add DMA support for pmem blk-mq
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 08:07:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170804060747.GA4218@linux-x5ow.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4joibpPF1LhoMVnPjSwqDkrp4FzzPojbaFiZ9KOs=+fuw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 09:15:12AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > I can put in a tunable knob like Johannes suggested and leave the
> > default for that to what it is currently. And we can adjust as necessary
> > as we do more testing.
> 
> That's the problem, we need a multi-dimensional knob. It's not just
> transfer-size that effects total delivered bandwidth.

If Dan opposes it so much, I'm OK with no tunable. I'm just expressing my
concern that we get reports like this [1] one here as a result.

Thanks,
	Johannes

[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150175029403913&w=2

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-04  6:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-31 22:24 [PATCH 0/5] Adding blk-mq and DMA support to pmem block driver Dave Jiang
2017-07-31 22:24 ` [PATCH 1/5] dmaengine: ioatdma: revert 7618d035 to allow sharing of DMA channels Dave Jiang
2017-07-31 22:24 ` [PATCH 2/5] dmaengine: ioatdma: dma_prep_memcpy_to/from_sg support Dave Jiang
2017-08-01  2:14   ` Dan Williams
2017-08-01 16:39     ` Dave Jiang
2017-08-02  4:57     ` Vinod Koul
2017-07-31 22:24 ` [PATCH 3/5] dmaengine: add SG support to dmaengine_unmap Dave Jiang
2017-07-31 22:24 ` [PATCH 4/5] libnvdimm: Adding blk-mq support to the pmem driver Dave Jiang
2017-08-01 19:02   ` Ross Zwisler
2017-07-31 22:24 ` [PATCH 5/5] libnvdimm: add DMA support for pmem blk-mq Dave Jiang
2017-08-01  7:34   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-08-01 16:40     ` Dave Jiang
2017-08-01 17:43     ` Dan Williams
2017-08-03  8:06       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-08-03 15:41         ` Dan Williams
2017-08-03 16:12           ` Dave Jiang
2017-08-03 16:15             ` Dan Williams
2017-08-04  6:07               ` Johannes Thumshirn [this message]
2017-08-04 15:47                 ` Dan Williams
2017-08-01 20:42   ` Ross Zwisler

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