On 14-08-25 01:52 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 23:31:38 -0400, nick said: >> In addition , why not create a linked list for the compression in btrfs as we >> can then do the work using the already build in workqueues for btrfs and >> improve the scalability of the compression functions and workload it causes as >> compression is very CPU intensive and we can easily take advance of workquenes >> in order to allow then to run when idle or rarely when CPU is under heavy load. > > Because fsync() exists. > > About my other question how many cores is btrfs scaling to? I would like to known for reasons of understanding the more strict locking I am finding in the btrfs code. Nick _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
