From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] block: remove per-queue plugging
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:41:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D75F9B5.1050704@fusionio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1299577122.2308.1201.camel@twins>
On 2011-03-08 10:38, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 21:46 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>
>> Great, that'll work for me! Your patch should work as-is, then. Thanks
>> Peter.
>
> Well I think it would be good to write it like:
>
> if (prev->state != TASK_RUNNING && blkneeds_flush(prev)) {
> raw_spin_unlock(&rq->lock);
> blk_flush_plug(prev);
> raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock);
> }
>
> To avoid flipping that lock when we don't have to.
Yes good point, in any case the need to flush will be an unlikely event.
So saving the lock/unlock dance for when we really need it is a good
optimization.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-08 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 158+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-22 1:17 [PATCH 0/10] On-stack explicit block queue plugging Jens Axboe
2011-01-22 1:17 ` [PATCH 01/10] block: add API for delaying work/request_fn a little bit Jens Axboe
2011-01-22 1:17 ` [PATCH 02/10] ide-cd: convert to blk_delay_queue() for a short pause Jens Axboe
2011-01-22 1:19 ` David Miller
2011-01-22 1:17 ` [PATCH 03/10] scsi: convert to blk_delay_queue() Jens Axboe
2011-01-22 1:17 ` [PATCH 04/10] block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging Jens Axboe
2011-01-24 19:36 ` Jeff Moyer
2011-01-24 21:23 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-10 16:54 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-10 19:32 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-10 19:46 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-16 8:18 ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-16 17:31 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-17 1:00 ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-17 3:19 ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-17 9:44 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-18 1:55 ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-17 9:43 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-18 6:36 ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-18 12:54 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-18 13:52 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-21 6:52 ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-21 9:20 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-22 0:32 ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-22 7:36 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-17 9:39 ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-22 1:17 ` [PATCH 05/10] block: remove per-queue plugging Jens Axboe
2011-01-22 1:31 ` Nick Piggin
2011-03-03 21:23 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-03 21:27 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-03 22:13 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-04 13:02 ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-04 13:20 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-04 21:43 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-04 21:50 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-04 22:27 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-05 20:54 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-07 10:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-07 19:43 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-07 20:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-07 20:46 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-08 9:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-08 9:41 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2011-03-07 0:54 ` Shaohua Li
2011-03-07 8:07 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-08 12:16 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-08 20:21 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-08 20:27 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-08 21:36 ` Jeff Moyer
2011-03-09 7:25 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-08 22:05 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-10 0:58 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-04-05 3:05 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11 4:50 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11 4:50 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11 9:19 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-11 10:59 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11 11:04 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-11 11:26 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11 11:37 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-11 12:05 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11 12:11 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-11 12:36 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11 12:48 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 1:12 ` hch
2011-04-12 8:36 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 12:22 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-12 12:28 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 12:41 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-12 12:58 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 13:31 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-12 13:45 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 14:34 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-12 21:08 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-13 2:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-13 11:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-13 11:23 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-13 11:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-13 15:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-13 17:35 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 16:58 ` hch
2011-04-12 17:29 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 16:44 ` hch
2011-04-12 16:49 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 16:54 ` hch
2011-04-12 17:24 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 13:40 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-12 13:48 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-12 23:35 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-12 16:50 ` hch
2011-04-15 4:26 ` hch
2011-04-15 6:34 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-17 22:19 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-17 22:19 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-18 4:19 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-18 4:19 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-18 6:38 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-18 7:25 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-18 8:10 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-18 8:10 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-18 8:33 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-18 8:42 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-18 8:42 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-18 21:23 ` hch
2011-04-22 15:39 ` hch
2011-04-22 16:01 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-22 16:10 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-18 21:30 ` hch
2011-04-18 22:38 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-20 10:55 ` hch
2011-04-18 9:19 ` hch
2011-04-18 9:40 ` [dm-devel] " Hannes Reinecke
2011-04-18 9:40 ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-04-18 9:47 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-18 9:46 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-11 11:55 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11 12:12 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-11 22:58 ` hch
2011-04-12 6:20 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-11 16:59 ` hch
2011-04-11 21:14 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-11 22:59 ` hch
2011-04-12 6:18 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-17 15:51 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-17 18:31 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-17 18:46 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-18 9:15 ` hch
2011-03-08 12:15 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-04 4:00 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-08 12:24 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-08 22:10 ` blk-throttle: Use blk_plug in throttle code (Was: Re: [PATCH 05/10] block: remove per-queue plugging) Vivek Goyal
2011-03-09 7:26 ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-22 1:17 ` [PATCH 06/10] block: kill request allocation batching Jens Axboe
2011-01-22 9:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-24 19:09 ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-22 1:17 ` [PATCH 07/10] fs: make generic file read/write functions plug Jens Axboe
2011-01-24 3:57 ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-24 19:11 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-04 4:09 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-04 13:22 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-04 13:25 ` hch
2011-03-04 13:40 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-04 14:08 ` hch
2011-03-04 22:07 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-04 23:12 ` hch
2011-03-08 12:38 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-09 10:38 ` hch
2011-03-09 10:52 ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-22 1:17 ` [PATCH 08/10] read-ahead: use plugging Jens Axboe
2011-01-22 1:17 ` [PATCH 09/10] fs: make mpage read/write_pages() plug Jens Axboe
2011-01-22 1:17 ` [PATCH 10/10] fs: make aio plug Jens Axboe
2011-01-24 17:59 ` Jeff Moyer
2011-01-24 19:09 ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-24 19:15 ` Jeff Moyer
2011-01-24 19:22 ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-24 19:29 ` Jeff Moyer
2011-01-24 19:31 ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-24 19:38 ` Jeff Moyer
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4D75F9B5.1050704@fusionio.com \
--to=jaxboe@fusionio.com \
--cc=hch@infradead.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mingo@elte.hu \
--cc=peterz@infradead.org \
--cc=shli@kernel.org \
--cc=snitzer@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.