Re: [PATCHSET sched/core] sched: prepare for cmwq

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun May 23 2010 - 05:06:01 EST



* Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello, Peter, Ingo.
>
> On 05/18/2010 01:13 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > On 05/13/2010 12:48 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >> These four patches are the scheduler modifications necessary for cmwq
> >> and contains the following four patches.
> >
> > Ping.
> >
>
> I know we're inside -rc1 merge window but I'm really
> hoping to push cmwq through linux-next during this devel
> cycle as the whole thing basically has been blocked
> unchanged on scheduler changes for a couple of months
> now. So, can we please get this thing moving?

IIRC these changes are for some sort of speedup for btrfs,
right?

I would really like to see before/after numbers on some
important FS workload. How much of a speedup does it give?

Thanks,

Ingo
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