From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
xia.wu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bdi: use deferable timer for sync_supers task
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 11:25:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101008092520.GB5426@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101008083514.GA12402@ywang-moblin2.bj.intel.com>
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 04:35:14PM +0800, Yong Wang wrote:
> sync_supers task currently wakes up periodically for superblock
> writeback. This hurts power on battery driven devices. This patch
> turns this housekeeping timer into a deferable timer so that it
> does not fire when system is really idle.
How long can the timer be defereed? We can't simply stop writing
out data for a long time. I think the current timer value should be
the upper bound, but allowing to fire earlier to run during the
same wakeup cycle as others is fine.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-08 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-08 8:35 Yong Wang
2010-10-08 9:25 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-10-08 10:02 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-10-08 10:04 ` Wu, Xia
2010-10-08 10:09 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-10-08 10:27 ` Wu, Xia
2010-10-08 10:28 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-10-08 10:27 ` Yong Wang
2010-10-08 13:57 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-08 14:42 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-08 13:59 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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