Re: xfsaild 20 wakeups per second

Brian Foster
2016-06-09T17:19:06Z

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:43:11AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> I was tuning the power consumption of my new laptop and noticed that
> each xfsaild process is still waking up 20 times per second. I found
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-03/msg00237.html which I think
> indicates that this was a workaround for some other issue and wouldn't
> be permanent. Unfortunately that was 4+ years ago. I wasn't able to
> locate any other discussion about the topic.
>
> Was it determined that the wakeups were going to have to stay
> permanently? Or was the issue just not revisited? And if the former,
> is there a way to tune the wakeup frequency in any way?
>

The short answer is that the wakeups are probably going to be around for
the immediate future. There was some recent discussion on this here (see
the follow up thread to the patch):

http://oss.sgi.com/pipermail/xfs/2016-April/048526.html

Brian

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