Re: [patch] smptimers, old BH removal, tq-cleanup, 2.5.39

Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-30T16:25:44Z

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 06:38:03PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> see the workqueues patch i posted a couple of minutes ago. Does this solve
> XFS's problems?

Not exactly. All your work on one queue is internally serialize. An
totally unserialized workqueue would be best for XFS.

> why is it ugly? I can add a simple interface to the workqueues subsystem
> that will bind the XFS worker threads to given sets of CPUs. That should
> give you per-CPU workqueues, with separate per-CPU locking.

That would also work, but would require more code in XFS than my
above suggestion.