[PATCH v3 0/2] nvmet: use unbound_wq for RDMA and TCP by default
Sagi Grimberg
sagi at grimberg.me
Sun Jul 21 04:03:43 PDT 2024
On 19/07/2024 12:19, Ping Gan wrote:
> When running nvmf on SMP platform, current nvme target's RDMA and
> TCP use bounded workqueue to handle IO, but when there is other high
> workload on the system(eg: kubernetes), the competition between the
> bounded kworker and other workload is very radical. To decrease the
> resource race of OS among them, this patchset will switch to unbounded
> workqueue for nvmet-rdma and nvmet-tcp; besides that, it can also
> get some performance improvement. And this patchset bases on previous
> discussion from below session.
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240719084953.8050-1-jacky_gam_2001@163.com/
Hold your horses.
This cannot be just switched without a thorough testing and actual
justification/proof of
a benefit beyond just a narrow use-case brought initially by Ping Gan.
If the ask is to universally use an unbound workqueue, please provide
detailed
benchmarking convincing us that this makes sense.
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