Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I don't think any disagrees with you, the sync-write process flag is
> > > indeed an atrocious beast...
> >
> > Yeah. PF_SYNCWRITE was a performance tweak for the anticipatory scheduler.
> > As cfq is using it as well now (hopefully to good effect) I guess it could
> > be formalised more.
>
> Yup, both 'as' and 'cfq' would prefer to just look at a SYNC bio flag
> instead. But the logic itself is definitely needed.
hm. I actually thought we were already doing that. We should at least
tranfer PF_SYNCWRITE into bi_flags at the point where we start to construct
the BIO.
That might well fix RAID, too. If it's handing work off to another thread
via BIOs.
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