[PATCH v2 0/2] nvmet: support unbound_wq for RDMA and TCP

[Sagi Grimberg]

On 19/07/2024 9:28, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 7/19/24 07:31, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 05:14:49PM +0800, 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 enable 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.
>>
>> So why aren't we using unbound workqueues by default?  Who makea the
>> policy decision and how does anyone know which one to chose?
>>
> I'd be happy to switch to unbound workqueues per default.
> It actually might be a left over from the various workqueue changes;
> at one point 'unbound' meant that effectively only one CPU was used
> for the workqueue, and you had to remove the 'unbound' parameter to
> have the workqueue run on all CPUs. That has since changed, so I guess
> switching to unbound per default is the better option here.

A guess needs to be based with supporting data if we want to have this 
change.