On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 07:00:22PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > queued ahead of all data/metadata IO completions and processed before the > data/metadata completions. Hence the log never gets stalled, and operations > needed to clean memory can continue as quickly as possible. This avoids the > livelock conditions and allos the system to keep running under heavy load as > per normal. >From a quick review of how the WQ_HIGHPRI flag is handled this look good to me. I'm still rather suspicious of the new workqueue code, and the complete lack of documentation for it, though. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs