On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 15:01 -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > * Fine grained btree locking. The large fs_mutex is finally gone. > There is still some work to do on the locking during extent allocation, > but the code is much more scalable than it was. Cool - will try to find a cycle to stare at the code ;-) > * Helper threads for checksumming and other background tasks. Most CPU > intensive operations have been pushed off to helper threads to take > advantage of SMP machines. Streaming read and write throughput now > scale to disk speed even with checksumming on. Can this lead to the same Priority Inversion issues as seen with kjournald? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
