[PATCH RFC] nvme-tcp: allow multiple queues per hctx

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Tue Oct 6 04:03:04 PDT 2026


On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 11:29:40AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> I'm still trying to see if we can achieve a similar result just by
> making duplicate connections and letting the multipath policy handle the
> spread. That does improve things significantly, but I'm getting worse
> performance than this RFC, and I still don't know why yet.

Best I can tell, the duplicate multipath connections does what's desired
on the host side, but the target side (standard Linux in-kernel target)
ends up queueing all its work on the same CPU, so that appears to be why
my RFC is showing better performance.



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