Re: [PATCH] backing dev unplugging

[Andrew Morton]

Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Here's a first cut at killing global plugging of block devices to reduce
> the nasty contention blk_plug_lock caused. This introduceds per-queue
> plugging, controlled by the backing_dev_info.

This is such an improvement over what we have now it isn't funny.

Ken, the next -mm is starting to look like linux-3.1.0 so I think it
would be best if you could benchmark Jens's patch against 2.6.4-rc2-mm1.
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