Re: [patch,v3] bdi: add a user-tunable cpu_list for the bdi flusher threads

2012-12-05 Thread Jens Axboe
On 2012-12-05 19:43, Jeff Moyer wrote: > In realtime environments, it may be desirable to keep the per-bdi > flusher threads from running on certain cpus. This patch adds a > cpu_list file to /sys/class/bdi/* to enable this. The default is to tie > the flusher threads to the same numa node as the

[patch,v3] bdi: add a user-tunable cpu_list for the bdi flusher threads

2012-12-05 Thread Jeff Moyer
In realtime environments, it may be desirable to keep the per-bdi flusher threads from running on certain cpus. This patch adds a cpu_list file to /sys/class/bdi/* to enable this. The default is to tie the flusher threads to the same numa node as the backing device (though I could be convinced to