Re: udevd is killing file write performance.

[Nick Piggin]

Robin Holt wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 06:07:43PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> > Attached is a first implementation of what was my idea then of how
> > to solve it... note it is pretty rough and I never got around to doing
> > much testing of it.
> >
> > Basically: moves work out of inotify event time and to inotify attach
> > /detach time while staying out of the core VFS.
>
>
> The customer called and said they had tried with udevd running and this
> patch applied.  They said the problem is gone.

OK, well tell them not to run it in production of course...

I'll spend a bit of time to implement Andrew's suggestion, and
do some testing on it.

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