[PATCH] nvme: Acknowledge completion queue on each iteration
Keith Busch
keith.busch at intel.com
Mon Jul 17 15:45:51 PDT 2017
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 06:36:23PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> Code is moving the completion queue doorbell after processing all completed
> events and sending callbacks to the block layer on each iteration.
>
> This is causing a performance drop when a lot of jobs are queued towards
> the HW. Move the completion queue doorbell on each loop instead and allow new
> jobs to be queued by the HW.
That doesn't make sense. Aggregating doorbell writes should be much more
efficient for high depth workloads.
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