On Wed, May 01 2013, Philip J. Kelleher wrote: > Again, thanks for the prompt reply. > > Also, sorry for my poor explaination skills :) > > The RHEL 6.x version of the driver is using the legacy > worqueue create function, 'create_singlethread_workqueue'. > This would cause heavy usage of one CPU if data was being > thrashed pretty hard. So, in order to fix it, workqueues > are now being created with 'create_workqueue' and > synchronization with mutexes.
See, that is what should have been in the changelog! -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
