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authorMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>2022-10-29 09:04:30 +0800
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2022-10-31 07:23:24 -0600
commitd57c2c6c1145148bb23d68db73de0b52d482d4ba (patch)
treec43810ddd07efb5405ba344821bf2f494a8d1ad8
parent224e858f215a3d6304f95a92357a1753475ca9cf (diff)
ublk_drv: comment on ublk_driver entry of Kconfig
Add help info for choosing to build ublk_drv as module or builtin. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: ZiyangZhang <ZiyangZhang@linux.alibaba.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221029010432.598367-3-ming.lei@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/Kconfig6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
index db1b4b202646..a41145d52de9 100644
--- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
@@ -408,6 +408,12 @@ config BLK_DEV_UBLK
definition isn't finalized yet, and might change according to future
requirement, so mark is as experimental now.
+ Say Y if you want to get better performance because task_work_add()
+ can be used in IO path for replacing io_uring cmd, which will become
+ shared between IO tasks and ubq daemon, meantime task_work_add() can
+ can handle batch more effectively, but task_work_add() isn't exported
+ for module, so ublk has to be built to kernel.
+
source "drivers/block/rnbd/Kconfig"
endif # BLK_DEV