Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:38:03 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] smptimers, old BH removal, tq-cleanup, 2.5.39 |
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On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> But it breaks XFS. Chris Wedgwood fixed it to use schedule_task() > instead (and I cleaned it up a littler more, see patch below), but this > does effectively simgle-thead XFS I/O completion.
see the workqueues patch i posted a couple of minutes ago. Does this solve XFS's problems?
> Altennatively we could allow kernel code to create it's own kevends with > associated task-queues, but that sounds rather ugly..
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.
Ingo
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