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Message-ID: <20110105150048.GA32455@kvack.org>
Date:	Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:00:48 -0500
From:	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
To:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-aio@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/32] fs/aio: aio_wq isn't used in memory reclaim path

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:50:57AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> > Yeap.  Do you agree that the concurrency limit is necessary?  If not,
> > we can just put everything onto system_wq.
> 
> I'm not sure whether it's strictly necessary (there may very well be a
> need for this in the usb gadgetfs code), but keeping it the same at
> least seems safe.

Limiting concurrency on aio requests is exactly the opposite of what the 
usb gadgetfs requires.  It's similarly bad for filesystem aio when there's 
a mix of small and large requests in flight.

		-ben
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