ublk_drv: comment on ublk_driver entry of Kconfig
authorMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Sat, 29 Oct 2022 01:04:30 +0000 (09:04 +0800)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:23:24 +0000 (07:23 -0600)
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>
drivers/block/Kconfig

index db1b4b202646e8076134bb5a001fb2032640a3c2..a41145d52de9426b0b6c9ac0ba97c0f7e4c79b5d 100644 (file)
@@ -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