On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 14:27 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > 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. Thanks, but > > 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. you merged this change, do you want me to send a separate patch which undo the 'spin_lock_bh' change? I'll think about how to avoid this and come back. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий) -- 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
