linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 11/11] writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups

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Date:	Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:45:41 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 11/11] writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads
 wakeups

On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 12:31 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>  	spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
> +
> +	if (wakeup_bdi) {
> +		spin_lock(&bdi->wb_lock);
> +		if (!bdi->wb.task)
> +			wake_up_process(default_backing_dev_info.wb.task);
> +		else
> +			wake_up_process(bdi->wb.task);
> +		spin_unlock(&bdi->wb_lock);
> +	}
>  }

Dave,

I do not know whether this stuff will end up in upstream, I did not get
any feed back from Jens so far. But if it will, I'd like to let you know
that the code quoted above is similar to the 'bdi_queue_work()'
function. And the purpose is very similar. But you added a
'trace_writeback_nothread()' call to 'bdi_queue_work()', and I think a
similar call has to be here.

Can I call 'trace_writeback_nothread()'? I guess not. Should I create
another trace point? Any hints/instructions?

Note, the patches are against Jens' tree.

Please, see linux-fsdevel or lkml for the full patch and its purposes.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

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