Re: XFS thread inflation in 2.6.23rc

Eric Sandeen
2007-08-11T01:21:53Z

David Chinner wrote:

> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2007-08/msg00009.html
>
> "On-demand reaping of the MRU cache
>
> Instead of running the mru cache reaper all the time based on a
> timeout, we should only run it when the cache has active objects.
> This allows CPUs to sleep when there is no activity rather than
> be woken repeatedly just to check if there is anything to do."

Ah, cool. Missed that, sorry. Will re-run powertop with that just to
keep you on your toes. ;-)

-Eric