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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
To: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: "dsterba@suse.cz" <dsterba@suse.cz>,
	"linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: get better concurrency for snapshot-aware defrag work
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:38:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130314183829.GC18457@shiny.masoncoding.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130312014402.GC31527@liubo.jp.oracle.com>

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 07:44:04PM -0600, Liu Bo wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 06:26:40PM +0100, David Sterba wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 05:20:58PM +0800, Liu Bo wrote:
> > > Using spinning case instead of blocking will result in better concurrency
> > > overall.
> > 
> > Do you have numbers to support that?
> > 
> 
> Sorry, I don't, just judging from what leave_spinning is desiged for and the
> similar usecases, like insert_reserved_file_extents(), which is also involved in
> endio write worker.

Leaving the path spinning is always faster.  As long as you're sure the
code inside doesn't schedule it is the right choice.

-chris


  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-14 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-11  9:20 [PATCH] Btrfs: get better concurrency for snapshot-aware defrag work Liu Bo
2013-03-11 17:26 ` David Sterba
2013-03-12  1:44   ` Liu Bo
2013-03-14 18:38     ` Chris Mason [this message]
2013-03-15  1:39       ` Liu Bo

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