On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 11:55:40AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > Actually, if the timer approach can reduce the frequency of rescuer > involvement, I think it could actually be better.
Ooh, it wouldn't. It's kicking in only after alloc failure. I don't know. I think conditioning it on alloc failure is cleaner and converting all per-bio allocations to front-pad makes sense. Using a timer wouldn't make the mechanism any simpler, right? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
