Re: [PATCH] backing dev unplugging

Andrew Morton
2004-03-10T19:53:47Z

Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
>
> Here's a first cut at killing global plugging of block devices to reduce
> the nasty contention blk_plug_lock caused. This introduceds per-queue
> plugging, controlled by the backing_dev_info.

This is such an improvement over what we have now it isn't funny.

Ken, the next -mm is starting to look like linux-3.1.0 so I think it
would be best if you could benchmark Jens's patch against 2.6.4-rc2-mm1.