[PATCHSET,next,0/10] Various network improvements

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Jens Axboe Feb. 6, 2024, 4:24 p.m. UTC

Hi,

This series was mostly driven by a report on how the unfair handling
of task_work can negatively impact performance as a whole.

- Improve how we recycle/put ring provided kbufs. Not related to
  the issue at hand, but it does improve that side.

- Improve how we deal with non-local task_work. Don't have unbounded
  looping, and handle them in issue order, like we do for local
  task_work.

- Decouple SQPOLL task_work from actual task_work.