Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 20:36:56 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Cc: axboe@fb.com, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com,
        nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net, w@uter.be, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][V2] nbd: add multi-connection support
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On Thu 2016-09-15 10:43:54, Josef Bacik wrote:
> NBD can become contended on its single connection.  We have to serialize =
all
> writes and we can only process one read response at a time.  Fix this by
> allowing userspace to provide multiple connections to a single nbd device=
=2E  This
> coupled with block-mq drastically increases performance in multi-process =
cases.
> Thanks,
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>

Idea is that it can now use multiple CPUs concurrently...?

Do you have a diff for the nbd-server, too?
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