From 53863232ef961778aa414b700ed88a48e8e871e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Mason Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:34:18 -0400 Subject: Btrfs: Lower contention on the csum mutex This takes the csum mutex deeper in the call chain and releases it more often. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason --- fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/btrfs/disk-io.c') diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c index 1aed1f4616b6..92e14dd9bddb 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c @@ -1386,7 +1386,14 @@ struct btrfs_root *open_ctree(struct super_block *sb, * devices */ fs_info->submit_workers.idle_thresh = 64; - fs_info->workers.idle_thresh = 32; + + /* fs_info->workers is responsible for checksumming file data + * blocks and metadata. Using a larger idle thresh allows each + * worker thread to operate on things in roughly the order they + * were sent by the writeback daemons, improving overall locality + * of the IO going down the pipe. + */ + fs_info->workers.idle_thresh = 128; btrfs_init_workers(&fs_info->fixup_workers, "fixup", 1); btrfs_init_workers(&fs_info->endio_workers, "endio", -- cgit v1.2.3