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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Questions about btrfs helper threads
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 01:52:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6109.1408945968@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Aug 2014 23:31:38 -0400." <53FAAE1A.3050603@gmail.com>

On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 23:31:38 -0400, nick said:
> In addition , why not create a linked list for the compression in btrfs as we
> can then do the work using the already build in workqueues for btrfs and
> improve the scalability of the compression functions and workload it causes as
> compression is very CPU intensive and we can easily take advance of workquenes
> in order to allow then to run when idle or rarely when CPU is under heavy load.

Because fsync() exists.


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-25  5:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-24  5:49 Questions about btrfs helper threads nick
2014-08-24 15:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-08-25  2:21   ` nick
2014-08-25  3:31     ` nick
2014-08-25  5:52       ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu [this message]
2014-08-25 16:24         ` nick

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