Re: [PATCH 2/6] dma: bcm-sba-raid: Peek mbox when we are left with no free requests

[Anup Patel]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:25:25AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:06:40AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
>> >> We should peek mbox channels when we are left with no free
>> >> sba_requests in sba_alloc_request()
>> >
>> > and why is the world should we do that, how does that help??
>>
>> When setting up RAID array on several NVMe disk we observed
>> that sba_alloc_request() start failing (due to no free requests left)
>> and RAID array setup becomes very slow.
>>
>> Doing mbox channel peek when we have no free requests left,
>> improves performance of RAID array setup.
>
> How about documenting this tribal knowledge in the changelog. Changelogs are
> very useful, 6 months down the line, you will struggle to remember why this
> was changed..

Sure, I will have detailed commit description for this.

Regards,
Anup