[PATCH v2 10/10] nvmet: Optionally use PCI P2P memory

Stephen Bates sbates at raithlin.com
Thu Mar 1 15:32:46 PST 2018


>   No, locality matters. If you have a bunch of NICs and bunch of drives
>   and the allocator chooses to put all P2P memory on a single drive your
>   performance will suck horribly even if all the traffic is offloaded.
    
Sagi brought this up earlier in his comments about the _find_ function. We are planning to do something about this in the next version. This might be a randomization or a "user-pick" and include a rule around using the p2p_dev on the EP if that EP is part of the transaction.

Stephen


    



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