Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:27:08 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv6 00/15] kill unnecessary bdi wakeups + cleanups |
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On 2010-07-25 13:29, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > Hi, > > here is v6 of the patch series which clean-ups bdi threads and substantially > lessens amount of unnecessary kernel wake-ups, which is very important on > battery-powered devices. > > This patch-set is also available at: > git://git.infradead.org/users/dedekind/misc-2.6.git flushers_v6
Thanks Artem, for sticking around long enough to get this into shape. I have finally merged it.
> 1. Use 'spin_lock_bh' for the 'bdi->wb_lock' (changed patch N12)
I'd rather not, question is how to avoid it. Either just wakeup the default thread, or punt the lock-and-check bdi->wb.task to a thread.
-- Jens Axboe
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