J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 05:25:47PM +1100, Greg Banks wrote: > >> J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:26:35PM +1100, Greg Banks wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>> It's a simple enough patch, but without any suggestion for how to retest >>> on a more recent kernel, I'm uneasy. >>> >> [...] >> >> Does that make you less uneasy? >> > > Yes, thanks! > > Queued up for 2.6.30, barring objections. Thanks. > But perhaps we should pass on > the patch and your results to people who know the scheduler better and > see if they can explain e.g. the loadavg numbers. > If you like. Personally I'm happy with assuming that it's because nfsd is putting an unnaturally harsh load on the scheduler. -- Greg Banks, P.Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. the brightly coloured sporks of revolution. I don't speak for SGI. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html