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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-05 12:47:28 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-05 12:47:28 +0100 |
commit | 7df4edb07cf54a4868b9a750424c0d2aa68f8d66 (patch) | |
tree | 0ad0ad3f3dcb6f9edf26dde42ba625053dddf54f /fs/jffs2/background.c | |
parent | 0d688da5505d77bcef2441e0a22d8cc26459702d (diff) | |
parent | 559595a985e106d2fa9f0c79b7f5805453fed593 (diff) |
Merge branch 'linus' into core/iommu
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/jffs2/background.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/jffs2/background.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/background.c b/fs/jffs2/background.c index 3cceef4ad2b..e9580104b6b 100644 --- a/fs/jffs2/background.c +++ b/fs/jffs2/background.c @@ -95,13 +95,17 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c) spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock); - /* This thread is purely an optimisation. But if it runs when - other things could be running, it actually makes things a - lot worse. Use yield() and put it at the back of the runqueue - every time. Especially during boot, pulling an inode in - with read_inode() is much preferable to having the GC thread - get there first. */ - yield(); + /* Problem - immediately after bootup, the GCD spends a lot + * of time in places like jffs2_kill_fragtree(); so much so + * that userspace processes (like gdm and X) are starved + * despite plenty of cond_resched()s and renicing. Yield() + * doesn't help, either (presumably because userspace and GCD + * are generally competing for a higher latency resource - + * disk). + * This forces the GCD to slow the hell down. Pulling an + * inode in with read_inode() is much preferable to having + * the GC thread get there first. */ + schedule_timeout_interruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(50)); /* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem. */ |