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Re: 4.4-rc: 28 bioset threads on small notebook

From Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: 4.4-rc: 28 bioset threads on small notebook
Date 2015-12-11 15:10 +0100
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On Fri, Dec 11 2015 at  5:49am -0500,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I know it is normal to spawn 8 threads for every single function,
...
> but 28 threads?
> 
> root       974  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Dec08   0:00 [bioset]
...

How many physical block devices do you have?

DM is doing its part to not contribute to this:
dbba42d8a ("dm: eliminate unused "bioset" process for each bio-based DM device")

(but yeah, all these extra 'bioset' threads aren't ideal)
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4.4-rc: 28 bioset threads on small notebook Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2015-12-11 11:50 +0100
  Re: 4.4-rc: 28 bioset threads on small notebook Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> - 2015-12-11 15:10 +0100
    Re: 4.4-rc: 28 bioset threads on small notebook Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2015-12-11 18:20 +0100

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