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SubjectRe: xfsaild causing 30+ wakeups/s on an idle system since 2.6.25-rcX
David Chinner wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 05:51:08PM +0100, Oliver Pinter wrote:
>
>> On 2/17/08, Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> xfsaild is causing many wakeups, a quick investigation shows
>>> xfsaild_push is always
>>> returning 30 msecs timeout value.
>>>
>
> That's a bug

Ok. Your patches fixes the 30+ wakeups :)

> , and has nothing to do with power consumption. ;)
>

I suggest using a sysctl value (such as
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs), instead of a hardcoded default
1000.
That would further reduce the wakeups.

>
> I only managed to reproduce this on a lazy superblock counter
> filesystem (i.e. new mkfs and recent kernel),

The filesystem was created in July 2007

> Can you see if the patch below fixes the problem.

Yes, it reduces wakeups to 1/sec.

Thanks,
--Edwin
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