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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	neilb@suse.de, djbw@fb.com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] raid5: offload stripe handle to workqueue
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 06:33:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130731103332.GE2810@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130731012434.GA1504@kernel.org>

Hello,

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:24:34AM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> stripe is the work unit actually. As I said, if I queue a work for each stripe,
> just queue_work() will make the system blast because of the pwq->pool->lock
> contention. dispatching one work has another side effect that I can't add block

Hmmm.... I see.  I'm not familiar with the code base and could be
missing something but how does the custom stripe dispatch queue
synchronize?  Doesn't that make use of a lock anyway?  If so, how
would scheduling separate work items be worse?  Also, can you please
elaborate the block plug part?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-31 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-30  5:52 [patch 0/3] raid5: make stripe handling multi-threading shli
2013-07-30  5:52 ` [patch 1/3] raid5: offload stripe handle to workqueue shli
2013-07-30 11:46   ` Tejun Heo
2013-07-30 12:53   ` Tejun Heo
2013-07-30 13:07     ` Shaohua Li
2013-07-30 13:57       ` Tejun Heo
2013-07-31  1:24         ` Shaohua Li
2013-07-31 10:33           ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2013-08-01  2:01             ` Shaohua Li
2013-08-01 12:15               ` Tejun Heo
2013-07-30  5:52 ` [patch 2/3] raid5: sysfs entry to control worker thread number shli
2013-07-30  5:52 ` [patch 3/3] raid5: only wakeup necessary threads shli
2013-07-30 12:46   ` Tejun Heo
2013-07-30 13:24     ` Shaohua Li
2013-07-30 14:01       ` Tejun Heo

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