Re: [GIT PULL] Btrfs updates for 4.20, part 1

From: David Sterba
Date: Tue Oct 23 2018 - 07:19:21 EST


On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 05:23:36PM -0700, Liu Bo wrote:
> > Performance improvements:
> >
> > * blocking mode of path is gone, means that only the spinning mode is used;
>
> I'd like to do a few corrections here, the transition from the
> spinning mode to blocking mode is removed, we still need blocking mode
> of path for sleeping context.

Ok, thanks. So for the purpose of merge changelog, the updated text:

* transition between blocking and spinning modes of path is gone, which
originally resulted to more unnecessary wakeups and updates to the
path locks, the effects are measurable and improve latency and
scalability