On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 10:21:51PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> We noticed the below changes on commit
> f876e44603ad091c840a5fae5b0753bbb421c037
> ("xfs: always do log forces via the workqueue"):
>
> Basically there are +1.2% increased throughput with +29.5% increased
> context switches.
Yes, the increase in context switches is expected. Every sync IO
causes a log force if it changed inode metadata, and the above
commit, as it describes, moves them to a work queue. Hence there's
more context switches involved in a log force that has to do work.
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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