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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Daniel Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmx.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pdflush question...
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:38:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030903083840.768cfd58.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14227.1062581053@www37.gmx.net>

Daniel Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Is it worth having a kernel config option to vary the number of 'pdflush'
> kernel threads?
> 
> For embedded, systems with no swap and maybe uniproc (?), perhaps one
> pdflush kthread would do?

Probably it should just be set to one by default anyway.  One pdflush is
good at serving lots of spindles.

> Perhaps more generally, the number could be linked to the number of
> processors and/or swap devices or spindles- this would eliminate having to configure
> it, and improve downward and upward scaling, perhaps?

Well the kernel will create up to eight pdflush instances according to the
current load.  That kinda works.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-03 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-03  9:24 Daniel Blueman
2003-09-03 15:38 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-09-03 17:12 ` Robert Love

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