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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Michael Rapoport <RAPOPORT@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	mst@redhat.com, jiangshanlai@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] cgroup aware workqueues
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 13:04:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160330170419.GG7822@mtj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201603210758.u2L7wiY9003907@d06av07.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>

Hello,

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 09:58:39AM +0200, Michael Rapoport wrote:
> I did some performance evaluation of different threading models in vhost, 
> and in most tests replacing vhost kthread's with workqueues degrades the 
> performance. Moreover, having thread management inside the vhost provides 

There really shouldn't be any difference when using unbound
workqueues.  workqueue becomes a convenience thing which manages
worker pools and there shouldn't be any difference between workqueue
workers and kthreads in terms of behavior.

> opportunity for optimization, at least for some workloads...

What sort of optimizations are we talking about?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-30 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-18 22:14 Bandan Das
2016-03-18 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] cgroup: Introduce a function to compare two tasks Bandan Das
2016-03-18 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] workqueue: introduce support for attaching to cgroups Bandan Das
2016-03-18 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] cgroup: use spin_lock_irq for cgroup match and attach fns Bandan Das
2016-03-18 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] vhost: use workqueues for the works Bandan Das
2016-03-20 18:10 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] cgroup aware workqueues Tejun Heo
2016-03-21 17:35   ` Bandan Das
2016-03-21  7:58 ` Michael Rapoport
2016-03-21  8:29 ` Christian Borntraeger
2016-03-21 17:49   ` Bandan Das
     [not found] ` <201603210758.u2L7wiXA028101@d06av09.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>
2016-03-21 17:43   ` Bandan Das
2016-03-22  7:12     ` vhost threading model (was: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] cgroup aware workqueues) Michael Rapoport
     [not found]     ` <201603220712.u2M7CCfq004548@d06av03.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>
2016-03-22 19:00       ` vhost threading model Bandan Das
2016-03-23 11:13         ` Michael Rapoport
     [not found] ` <201603210758.u2L7wiY9003907@d06av07.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>
2016-03-30 17:04   ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2016-03-31  6:17     ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] cgroup aware workqueues Michael Rapoport
2016-03-31 17:14       ` Tejun Heo
2016-03-31 18:45         ` Bandan Das
2016-04-03 10:43           ` Michael Rapoport
     [not found]           ` <201604031043.u33AhpSF023771@d06av06.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>
2016-04-04 17:00             ` Bandan Das
2016-04-03 10:43         ` Michael Rapoport
2016-05-27  9:22         ` Michael Rapoport
2016-05-27 14:17           ` Tejun Heo

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