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 -- 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
