From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Should I choose SLOW_WORK?
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:09:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D93A42.2030009@garzik.org> (raw)
I am newly presented with
> Enable slow work thread pool (SLOW_WORK) [N/y/?] (NEW) ?
>
> The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated
> threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that
> take a relatively long time.
>
> An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed
> by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch
> disk.
However, this does not tell me whether I need or want this.
And, why must the user make this choice at all? Surely it can be
auto-selected, if cachefs is enabled? At a minimum, hide this under
CONFIG_EMBEDDED or whatnot, so that most users don't see this choice, IMO.
Jeff
next reply other threads:[~2009-04-05 23:10 UTC|newest]
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2009-04-05 23:09 Jeff Garzik [this message]
2009-04-05 23:33 ` Should I choose SLOW_WORK? Jesper Juhl
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