linux-kernel - Re: Btrfs v0.16 released

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Date:	Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:08:59 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Btrfs v0.16 released

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 15:01 -0400, Chris Mason wrote:

> * Fine grained btree locking.  The large fs_mutex is finally gone.
> There is still some work to do on the locking during extent allocation,
> but the code is much more scalable than it was.

Cool - will try to find a cycle to stare at the code ;-)

> * Helper threads for checksumming and other background tasks.  Most CPU
> intensive operations have been pushed off to helper threads to take
> advantage of SMP machines.  Streaming read and write throughput now
> scale to disk speed even with checksumming on.

Can this lead to the same Priority Inversion issues as seen with
kjournald?

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