From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:21:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l7B1Llbm006615 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:21:49 -0700 Message-ID: <46BD0F30.6080306@sandeen.net> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:21:52 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: XFS thread inflation in 2.6.23rc References: <200708081240.21548.ak@suse.de> <200708081422.10373.ak@suse.de> <20070808131404.GQ52011508@sgi.com> <200708081526.06860.ak@suse.de> <20070809110322.GA12413810@sgi.com> <46BCBDB2.6070703@sandeen.net> <20070810234940.GO12413810@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20070810234940.GO12413810@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: David Chinner Cc: Andi Kleen , xfs@oss.sgi.com 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