[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 01/10] IB/ehca: Support for multiple event queues

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Jul 16 20:48:40 PDT 2007


 > No, I've no figures to provide here. The background of this dist_eqs
 > option is actually to allow us testing across all event queues
 > without to change the testcases resp consumers to use certain
 > event queue number. Thus, I should comment it as EXPERIMENTAL?

Seems like it's just development/testing code that shouldn't escape
into the wild?

 > > I think I would rather hold off on multiple EQs for this merge window
 > > and plan on having something really solid and thought-out for 2.6.24.

 > Fair enough. However why don't let us gather experience with this
 > feature now? Should we remove dist_eqs option for more consistency?

As I said I definitely think the dist_eqs switch doesn't sound like
something we want to expose to people.

With that said I still am not sure about putting the multiple EQs
feature in this release.  All the infrastructure is there to make
experimenting with it fairly painless (just the low-level driver needs
to change), and I still haven't seen much code using the feature or
even any anecdotal information about the performance impact.



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