Re: [PATCH v1 0/9] block & aio: kernel aio and loop mq conversion

[Ming Lei]

On 8/15/14, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 08:59:56PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
>> Your concern is right, previous I thought that mq conversion wouldn't
>> improve
>> throughput, but I did ignore workqueue's concurrency management, it
>> turns out blk-mq conversion can improvment throughput close to 10 times
>> in
>> my test(loop over virtio-blk which is backed by one image on SSD).  It is
>> like
>> POSIX style AIO after mq conversion thanks to workqueue, and I need to
>> update the performance data in V2.
>>
>> Actually kernel AIO needn't such high concurrency.
>
> Can you juse send a loop blk-mq conversion for now?  I think that's

OK.

> a bit less controversial than the new kernel aio APIs, and keeping the
> two separate is a good idea in general.

Exactly, the two should be perfect pair for loop block, IMO.

Thanks,
-- 
Ming Lei
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