From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pg0-f72.google.com (mail-pg0-f72.google.com [74.125.83.72]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BA496B0390 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2017 03:10:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pg0-f72.google.com with SMTP id u3so164105205pgn.12 for ; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 00:10:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org. [65.50.211.133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d11si16540864pln.319.2017.04.04.00.10.36 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 04 Apr 2017 00:10:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 00:10:33 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] loop: Add PF_LESS_THROTTLE to block/loop device thread. Message-ID: <20170404071033.GA25855@infradead.org> References: <871staffus.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <871staffus.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: NeilBrown Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML Looks fine, Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig But if you actually care about performance in any way I'd suggest to use the loop device in direct I/O mode.. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org