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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>2011-10-17 13:56:53 -0400
committerNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>2011-10-24 03:21:52 +0000
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target: use a workqueue for I/O completions
Instead of abusing the target processing thread for offloading I/O completion in the backends to user context add a new workqueue. This means completions can be processed as fast as available CPU time allows it, including in parallel with other completions and more importantly I/O submission or QUEUE FULL retries. This should give much better performance especially on loaded systems. As a fallout we can merge all the completed states into a single one. On the downside this change complicates lun reset handling a bit by requiring us to cancel a work item only for those states that have it initialized. The alternative would be to either always initialize the work item to a dummy handler, or always use the same handler and do a switch on the state. The long term solution will be a flag that says that the command has an initialized work item, but that's only going to be useful once we have more users. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
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