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Re: XFS thread inflation in 2.6.23rc

To: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS thread inflation in 2.6.23rc
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:21:52 -0500
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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David Chinner wrote:

> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2007-08/msg00009.html
> 
> "On-demand reaping of the MRU cache
> 
> Instead of running the mru cache reaper all the time based on a
> timeout, we should only run it when the cache has active objects.
> This allows CPUs to sleep when there is no activity rather than
> be woken repeatedly just to check if there is anything to do."

Ah, cool.  Missed that, sorry.  Will re-run powertop with that just to
keep you on your toes.  ;-)

-Eric


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