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SubjectRe: [PATCHSET] writeback: convert writeback to unbound workqueue
On Thu, Mar 07 2013, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There's no reason for writeback to implement its own worker pool when
> using workqueue is much simpler and more efficient. This patchset
> replaces writeback's custom worker pool with unbound workqueue and
> also exports it to userland using WQ_SYSFS so that it can be tuned
> from userland as requested a couple releases ago.
>
> This patchset contains the following four patches.
>
> 0001-implement-current_is_workqueue_rescuer.patch
> 0002-writeback-remove-unused-bdi_pending_list.patch
> 0003-writeback-replace-custom-worker-pool-implementation-.patch
> 0004-writeback-expose-the-bdi_wq-workqueue.patch
>
> 0001-0002 are prep patches. 0003 does the conversion. 0004 makes
> bdi_wq visible to userland.
>
> This patchset is on top of v3.9-rc1 + "workqueue: implement workqueue
> with custom worker attributes" patchset[1] and available in the
> following git branch.
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git review-writeback-conversion

I like it, diffstat looks nice too :-)

Have you done any performance testing, or just functional verification?

--
Jens Axboe



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