From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p6J23LGm139968 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:03:21 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 2D8B77CDA1 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.166.109.252]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id CKCMX7qpoJ5heW8O for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:03:17 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] xfs: flush the CIL via a workqueue Message-ID: <20110719020317.GC4259@infradead.org> References: <1310960989-10284-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1310960989-10284-4-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1310960989-10284-4-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.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 Generally looks okay, but doing a context switch in every log force might bite us. Less the general context switch overhead, but more the nasty interactions with cfq, which are causing huge problems for ext3/4, with no good way to fix them for workqueues. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs