[PATCH RFC 2/4] nvme-fabrics: add target support for TCP transport

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Fri Mar 10 14:08:27 PST 2017


On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:31:16AM +0000, Bert Kenward wrote:
> Memory is currently allocated as zero-order pages. It's possible
> that using higher order pages may be desirable, trading potential
> allocation latency for less fragmented SKBs on transmit.

FYI, that would be a useful optimization for RDMA as well.  I know
SCST had some sophisticated code for doing nice SGL allocations and
caching, maybe it's time to get that upstream.  Bart, is that something you'd
be interested in looking into?



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