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Message-Id: <83739F77-AB54-449D-B063-C6DCD3534D2B@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:19:25 -0500 (EST)
From:	Eric Sandeen <esandeen@...hat.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] jbd: don't wake kjournald unnecessarily

On Dec 19, 2012, at 2:27 PM, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 06:14:01PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>>  I agree. Just I'm still somewhat puzzled by those two reports pointed to
>> by Eric. In both cases stored tids were 0 and I cannot see how that happens
>> (well how it could happen in a reasonably likely way).
> 
> I'm also really puzzled about how Eric's patch makes a 10% different
> on the AIM7 benchmark; as you've pointed out, that will just cause an
> extra wakeup of the jbd/jbd2 thread, which should then quickly check
> and decide to go back to sleep.

TBH I'm puzzled too, but that's what the perf guys tell me...

Eric

>                    - Ted
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