Re: diskd and unlink

From: Robert Collins <robertc@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:54:32 +1100

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:54 +0900, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'd like to make diskd use the unlink daemon instead of handling unlinks itself
> in an attempt to lessen the amount of work being sent to the queue, and thus
> (hopefully) mitigate the amount of times the disk callback is being recursively
> called.
>
> If noone objects I'll make this change to 2.HEAD, 2.7 and 2.6; I'll leave 3
> to someone who knows more about the code post-code-shuffling.

Doesn't that cause a performance hit on file systems where unlink()
blocks?

-Rob

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