From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752381Ab1IFQpT (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:45:19 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:61786 "EHLO mail-gx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752143Ab1IFQpL (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:45:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 01:44:58 +0900 From: Tejun Heo To: Theodore Tso Cc: Anton Blanchard , Eric Dumazet , adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] percpu_counter: Put a reasonable upper bound on percpu_counter_batch Message-ID: <20110906164458.GI18425@mtj.dyndns.org> References: <20110826072622.406d3395@kryten> <20110826072927.5b4781f9@kryten> <1314347983.2563.1.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> <20110829214609.495ee299@kryten> <20110906034851.GC18425@mtj.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 09:30:50AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > >> I chose to cap percpu_counter_batch at 1024 as a conservative first > >> step, but we may want to reduce it further based on further benchmarking. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard > > > > Applied to percpu/for-3.2. > > Um, this was an ext4 patch and I pointed out it could cause problems. (Specifically, data loss…) Ah okay, I thought you were talking about the first patch only. Reverting for now. Thanks. -- tejun