[PATCH 21/21] null_blk: Do not limit # of hardware queues to # of CPUs

Alexander Gordeev agordeev at redhat.com
Fri Sep 16 01:51:32 PDT 2016


It is not responsibility of device driver to assume number of
hardware queues used. Let the block layer decide instead.

CC: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
CC: linux-nvme at lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/block/null_blk.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk.c b/drivers/block/null_blk.c
index 1747040..8c5cf88 100644
--- a/drivers/block/null_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/null_blk.c
@@ -793,9 +793,7 @@ static int __init null_init(void)
 							nr_online_nodes);
 			submit_queues = nr_online_nodes;
 		}
-	} else if (submit_queues > nr_cpu_ids)
-		submit_queues = nr_cpu_ids;
-	else if (!submit_queues)
+	} else if (!submit_queues)
 		submit_queues = 1;
 
 	mutex_init(&lock);
-- 
1.8.3.1




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