how about dedicating a thread for unlink?
On 13 Dec 2001, at 21:56, Robert Collins <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
> > > And perhaps aufs should..
> >
> > Why, you already have threads anyway.
>
> Efficiency. An unlink request has no immediate use for cache
> performance, yet putting it through the aufs queue removes one async I/O
> that would either commit incoming data to disk or retrieve data for
> sending to a client. Thus unlinkd will increase available I/O bandwidth
> for request processing, at the cost of deferring some of the unlink
> activity.
>
> Rob
>
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