Pankaj Raghav d234e6b801 Kernel: Add polling support to NVMe ...

Add polling support to NVMe so that it does not use interrupt to
complete a IO but instead actively polls for completion. This probably
is not very efficient in terms of CPU usage but it does not use
interrupts to complete a IO which is beneficial at the moment as there
is no MSI(X) support and it can reduce the latency of an IO in a very
fast NVMe device.

The NVMeQueue class has been made the base class for NVMeInterruptQueue
and NVMePollQueue. The factory function `NVMeQueue::try_create` will
return the appropriate queue to the controller based on the polling
boot parameter.

The polling mode can be enabled by adding an extra boot parameter:
`nvme_poll`.

2022-02-02 18:26:59 +01:00

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