1. 25 9月, 2008 2 次提交
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      Btrfs: Add async worker threads for pre and post IO checksumming · 8b712842
      Chris Mason 提交于
      Btrfs has been using workqueues to spread the checksumming load across
      other CPUs in the system.  But, workqueues only schedule work on the
      same CPU that queued the work, giving them a limited benefit for systems with
      higher CPU counts.
      
      This code adds a generic facility to schedule work with pools of kthreads,
      and changes the bio submission code to queue bios up.  The queueing is
      important to make sure large numbers of procs on the system don't
      turn streaming workloads into random workloads by sending IO down
      concurrently.
      
      The end result of all of this is much higher performance (and CPU usage) when
      doing checksumming on large machines.  Two worker pools are created,
      one for writes and one for endio processing.  The two could deadlock if
      we tried to service both from a single pool.
      Signed-off-by: NChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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