From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Zhi Yong Wu <zwu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
linuxram@linux.vnet.ibm.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
cmm@us.ibm.com, tytso@mit.edu, marco.stornelli@gmail.com,
stroetmann@ontolinux.com, diegocg@gmail.com, chris@csamuel.org,
Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 07/10] vfs: fork one kthread to update data temperature
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:01:17 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120927070117.GR15236@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEH94LgMXNZ_6Cs-YbhWVocO6jWb+Xq8=xgooimCFGnFbuEw5Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 02:54:22PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 08:56:32PM +0800, zwu.kernel@gmail.com wrote:
> >> From: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >>
> >> Fork and run one kernel kthread to calculate
> >> that temperature based on some metrics kept
> >> in custom frequency data structs, and store
> >> the info in the hash table.
> >
> > No new kthreads, please. Use a per-superblock workqueue and a struct
> > delayed_work to run periodic work on each superblock.
> If no new kthread is created, which kthread will work on these
> delayed_work tasks?
One of the kworker threads that service the workqueue
infrastructure.
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-27 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-23 12:56 [RFC v2 00/10] vfs: hot data tracking zwu.kernel
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 01/10] vfs: introduce private rb structures zwu.kernel
2012-09-25 7:37 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-25 7:57 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-25 8:00 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-25 10:20 ` Ram Pai
2012-09-26 3:20 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 02/10] vfs: add support for updating access frequency zwu.kernel
2012-09-25 9:17 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-26 2:53 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27 2:19 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27 2:30 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 03/10] vfs: add one new mount option '-o hottrack' zwu.kernel
2012-09-25 9:28 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-26 2:56 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27 2:20 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27 2:30 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27 5:25 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27 7:05 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27 7:21 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 04/10] vfs: add init and exit support zwu.kernel
2012-09-27 2:27 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 05/10] vfs: introduce one hash table zwu.kernel
2012-09-25 9:54 ` Ram Pai
2012-09-26 4:08 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27 3:43 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27 6:23 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27 6:57 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27 7:10 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 06/10] vfs: enable hot data tracking zwu.kernel
2012-09-27 3:54 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27 6:28 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27 6:59 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27 7:12 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 07/10] vfs: fork one kthread to update data temperature zwu.kernel
2012-09-27 4:03 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27 6:54 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27 7:01 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2012-09-27 7:19 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 08/10] vfs: add 3 new ioctl interfaces zwu.kernel
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 09/10] vfs: add debugfs support zwu.kernel
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 10/10] vfs: add documentation zwu.kernel
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