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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: JiSheng Zhang <jszhang3@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: elder@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: remove unecessary AIL push wakeups
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:02:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120124180215.GC23671@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120113013028.6802d878@ustc>

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 01:30:28AM +0800, JiSheng Zhang wrote:
> 
> In commit 0030807c66("xfs: revert to using a kthread for AIL pushing"),
> AIL pushing is revert back to use a kthread. But unfortunately, it
> introduced a regression: there are unnecessary AIL push wakeups during
> idle, ~20 wakeups/s. This change remove the wakeups by reverting a bit
> more: set "tout" value as zero during idle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: JiSheng Zhang <jszhang3@mail.ustc.edu.cn>

Looks fine, although I'm a bit worried that I don't have the setup to
reproduce the issue that the patch addressed any more and we might
regress here.

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-12 17:30 [PATCH] xfs: remove unecessary AIL push wakeups JiSheng Zhang
2012-01-24 18:02 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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