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SubjectRe: [PATCH][V2] nbd: add multi-connection support
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On 10/07/2016 02:36 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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. This
>> coupled with block-mq drastically increases performance in multi-process cases.
>> Thanks,
>>
>> 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?
> Pavel
>

nbd-server doesn't need anything special, it just works. I have a patch for
nbd-client so you can open multiple connections to setup the NBD device. You
can find my patches for the userspace stuff here

https://github.com/josefbacik/nbd

Thanks,

Josef

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