From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay3.corp.sgi.com [198.149.34.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p37LDThS130758 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:13:29 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] xfs: convert the xfsaild threads to a workqueue From: Alex Elder In-Reply-To: <1302141445-27457-6-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> References: <1302141445-27457-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1302141445-27457-6-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:16:28 -0500 Message-ID: <1302210988.2576.601.camel@doink> Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: aelder@sgi.com List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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: Dave Chinner Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 11:57 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Dave Chinner > > Similar to the xfssyncd, the per-filesystem xfsaild threads can be > converted to a global workqueue and run periodically by delayed > works. This makes sense for the AIL pushing because it uses > variable timeouts depending on the work that needs to be done. > > By removing the xfsaild, we simplify the AIL pushing code and > remove the need to spread the code to implement the threading > and pushing across multiple files. Pretty cool. Looks good to me. Reviewed-by: Alex Elder > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs