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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Btrfs v0.16 released
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:08:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1218100139.8625.7.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217962876.15342.33.camel@think.oraclecorp.com>

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 15:01 -0400, Chris Mason wrote:

> * Fine grained btree locking.  The large fs_mutex is finally gone.
> There is still some work to do on the locking during extent allocation,
> but the code is much more scalable than it was.

Cool - will try to find a cycle to stare at the code ;-)

> * Helper threads for checksumming and other background tasks.  Most CPU
> intensive operations have been pushed off to helper threads to take
> advantage of SMP machines.  Streaming read and write throughput now
> scale to disk speed even with checksumming on.

Can this lead to the same Priority Inversion issues as seen with
kjournald?


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-07  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-05 19:01 Btrfs v0.16 released Chris Mason
2008-08-07  9:08 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-08-07 10:34   ` Chris Mason
2008-08-07 14:58     ` Chris Friesen
2008-08-07 15:07     ` tvrtko.ursulin
2008-08-07  9:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-07 10:39   ` Chris Mason
     [not found]     ` <3da3b5b40808070703x4cf49471q6acc00351ba019d7@mail.gmail.com>
2008-08-07 14:06       ` Chris Mason
2008-08-07 18:02     ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-08 18:48       ` Chris Mason
2008-08-08 21:56         ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-09  1:19           ` Theodore Tso
2008-08-09  1:23             ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-09  1:23               ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-09  1:43               ` Theodore Tso
2008-08-09  1:23             ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-14 21:00         ` Chris Mason
2008-08-14 21:17           ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-15  1:25             ` Chris Mason
2008-08-15  1:39               ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-15 13:00                 ` Chris Mason
2008-08-16 19:26                   ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-08-18 13:52                     ` Chris Mason
2008-08-18 17:37                       ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-08-14 23:44           ` Theodore Tso
2008-08-15  1:10             ` Chris Mason
2008-08-15 12:46               ` Chris Mason
2008-08-15 13:45                 ` Theodore Tso
2008-08-15 17:52                   ` Chris Mason
2008-08-15 19:59                     ` Theodore Tso
2008-08-15 20:37                       ` Chris Mason
2008-08-16 18:10                         ` Chris Mason
2008-08-16 19:27                           ` Theodore Tso
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-07 19:33 btrfs-devel

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