Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > The patches attempt to optimize the periodic write-back and stop it when > there are no dirty data. IOW, we do not want the thread to wake up every > 5 seconds (by default), find there is nothing to do, and so on. Is waking up every 5 seconds really a problem? The normal rule of thumb is iirc that longer sleep times than a few hundred ms give dimishing returns in terms of power saving. A simple way might be simple to batch the timer better with other timers. -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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
