[PATCH for-next 2/2] nvme: optimise io_uring passthrough completion
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Wed May 17 05:39:21 PDT 2023
On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 01:32:53PM +0100, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> 1) ublk does secondary batching and so may produce multiple cqes,
> that's not supported. I believe Ming sent patches removing it,
> but I'd rather not deal with conflicts for now.
>
> 2) Some users may have dependencies b/w requests, i.e. a request
> will only complete when another request's task_work is executed.
>
> 3) There might be use cases when you don't wont it to be delayed,
> IO retries would be a good example. I wouldn't also use it for
> control paths like ublk_ctrl_uring_cmd.
You speak a lot of some users and some cases when the only users
are ublk and nvme, both of which would obviously benefit.
If you don't want conflicts wait for Ming to finish his work
and then we can do this cleanly and without leaving dead code
around.
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