From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755485AbYAWDu3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:50:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752969AbYAWDuT (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:50:19 -0500 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:57908 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750906AbYAWDuS (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:50:18 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:50:01 +1100 From: David Chinner To: Jens Axboe Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, knikanth@novell.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] IO context sharing Message-ID: <20080123035001.GL155259@sgi.com> References: <1200995361-24001-1-git-send-email-jens.axboe@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1200995361-24001-1-git-send-email-jens.axboe@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 10:49:15AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > Hi, > > Today io contexts are per-process and define the (surprise) io context > of that process. In some situations it would be handy if several > processes share an IO context. I think that the nfsd threads should probably share as well. It should probably provide an io context per thread pool.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group