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authorChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>2008-08-15 15:34:18 -0400
committerChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>2008-09-25 11:04:06 -0400
commit53863232ef961778aa414b700ed88a48e8e871e6 (patch)
tree05a74ac264a5fb4f6b8824771f5820ca5907afe5 /fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
parent4854ddd0ed0a687fc2d7c45a529c406232e31e7b (diff)
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Btrfs: Lower contention on the csum mutex
This takes the csum mutex deeper in the call chain and releases it more often. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index 1aed1f4616b6..92e14dd9bddb 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -1386,7 +1386,14 @@ struct btrfs_root *open_ctree(struct super_block *sb,
* devices
*/
fs_info->submit_workers.idle_thresh = 64;
- fs_info->workers.idle_thresh = 32;
+
+ /* fs_info->workers is responsible for checksumming file data
+ * blocks and metadata. Using a larger idle thresh allows each
+ * worker thread to operate on things in roughly the order they
+ * were sent by the writeback daemons, improving overall locality
+ * of the IO going down the pipe.
+ */
+ fs_info->workers.idle_thresh = 128;
btrfs_init_workers(&fs_info->fixup_workers, "fixup", 1);
btrfs_init_workers(&fs_info->endio_workers, "endio",
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