From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o022kQXR052107 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 20:46:26 -0600 Received: from mail.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id B99FF1DAB3F6 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 18:47:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.internode.on.net (bld-mail13.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.98]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id FJIost45KmspaA07 for ; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:47:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from discord (unverified [121.44.238.220]) by mail.internode.on.net (SurgeMail 3.8f2) with ESMTP id 11047660-1927428 for ; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:17:12 +1030 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (helo=disturbed) by discord with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NQu1G-0007xC-69 for xfs@oss.sgi.com; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:47:10 +1100 Received: from dave by disturbed with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NQtxr-00054H-Cg for xfs@oss.sgi.com; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:43:39 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: [PATCH 0/2] XFS: Run kernel threads on demand Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:43:33 +1100 Message-Id: <1262400215-19443-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs@oss.sgi.com We run the xfsbufd and the xfsaild once a second even when there is no work to do. Make them demand driven so that we don't needlessly wake idle CPUs to do nothing. This should make power misers with XFS filesystems happy. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs