Re: [RFC v0] Use swait in completion

From: Daniel Wagner
Date: Tue Mar 08 2016 - 13:07:34 EST


On 03/08/2016 06:52 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> However I don't think if your DEFER flag solution is all that bad. I
> have also the block-mq in -RT using swait and they perform wakes with
> irqs-off. Not in -RT but mainline. So me might need something to make it
> work properly. But if we defer the wakeup they might come at us and
> complain about the latencyâ

I intended to extend the test code to measure the latency diff as well.
Just to get a feeling how bad it is. At least with a lot of waiters on
the completion the current measurement indicate an improvement. I guess
with real workload the things look quite different.

cheers,
daniel