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SubjectRe: [PATCH RESEND 0/1] AHCI: Optimize interrupt processing
Hello,

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 02:42:49PM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> As conversion of libata to blk mq has long done I tried the change

Hmmm? You mean scsi-mq?

> against the recent version and the results still appear worthwhile.
>
> The numbers are taken by running 'dd if=/dev/sd{a,b} of=/dev/null'
> in parallel. All time values are in us.
>
> Before this update host lock average holdtime was 2.45 and
> average waittime was 1.24. After the update average holdtime
> dropped to 0.29 (about eight times) while average waittime
> decreased to 0.58 (about two times).
>
> Also, port events are handled with local interrupts enabled
> and compete on individual per-port locks with average holdtime
> 1.25 and average waittime 1.48. So combined average holdtime
> spent while holding host and port locks decreased from 2.45 to
> 0.29 + 1.25 = 1.54 (about 1.6 times).
>
> The downside of this change is introduction of a kernel thread.

That shouldn't matter at all but can you please present the
information in a more digestable form? e.g. CPU usage decreased from
A to B when transferring N MB/s on certain setup.

Thanks.

--
tejun


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