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Jens Axboe 04f3eafda6 nvme: implement mq_ops->commit_rqs() hook
Split the command submission and the SQ doorbell ring, and add the
doorbell ring as our ->commit_rqs() hook. This allows a list of
requests to be issued, with nvme only writing the SQ update when
it's necessary. This is more efficient if we have lists of requests
to issue, particularly on virtualized hardware, where writing the
SQ doorbell is more expensive than on real hardware. For those cases,
performance increases of 2-3x have been observed.

The use case for this is plugged IO, where blk-mq flushes a batch of
requests at the time.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-11-29 10:12:07 -07:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.