Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:41:39 +0200 | From | Török Edwin <> | Subject | Re: xfsaild causing 30+ wakeups/s on an idle system since 2.6.25-rcX |
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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.
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