[PATCH v2 RESENT] blk: optimization for classic polling

Jens Axboe axboe at kernel.dk
Tue Feb 13 06:42:20 PST 2018


On 2/13/18 11:56 AM, Nitesh Shetty wrote:
> This removes the dependency on interrupts to wake up task. Set task
> state as TASK_RUNNING, if need_resched() returns true,
> while polling for IO completion.
> Earlier, polling task used to sleep, relying on interrupt to wake it up.
> This made some IO take very long when interrupt-coalescing is enabled in
> NVMe.

__set_current_state() should suffice here.

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Jens Axboe




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