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Date:   Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:29:08 +0100
From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] blk-mq: Always complete remote completions requests
 in softirq
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On 2021-01-25 08:32:48 [+0000], Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Well, I put it in quotes because I'm not sure what the exact effect
> is.  But we do delay these completions to the softirq now instead of
> hardirq context, which at least in theory increases latency.  OTOH it
> might even have positive effects on the rest of the system.

The last part is/was my motivation ;)

Sebastian