RE: Can major re-organization activities of the UBIfs be "deliberately provoked"?

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 06:50 -0400, Atlant Schmidt wrote:
> Artem:
> 
>   Thanks! We've already tuned the Linux page cache
>   to be quite a lot less bursty (for example, by
>   decreasing the dirty_expire_centisecs from 3000
>   (30 seconds) to 500 (5 seconds); this substantially
>   removed the burstiness associated with the VFS
>   (and the associated pagecache flushing tasks).
> 
>   Now, though, we assume we're up against garbage
>   collection in the UBIfs so we wonder if there's
>   a way to make *THAT* operation either:
> 
>     1. Less bursty (perhaps by making it run more
>        often but have less work to do at each run),
>        or
> 
>     2. Externally schedulable so we could cause it
>        to occur when we have idle CPU time and its
>        running won't affect the realtime behavior
>        of the rest of our system.
> 
>   Can either of those things be done?

Yes, I think both can be done. Someone just needs to do this :-)

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy