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4.4-final: 28 bioset threads on small notebook

From Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject 4.4-final: 28 bioset threads on small notebook
Date 2016-02-20 18:50 +0100
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On Fri 2015-12-11 09:08:41, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> 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)

Still there in 4.4-final.

Block devices:
259 blkext
  7 loop
 8 sd
 9 md
 11 sr
 43 nbd
 65 sd
 66 sd
 67 sd
 68 sd
 69 sd
 70 sd
 71 sd
	       128 sd
	       129 sd
	       130 sd
	       131 sd
	       132 sd
	       133 sd
	       134 sd
	       135 sd
	       179 mmc
	       251 device-mapper
	       252 bcache
	       253 pktcdvd
	       254 mdp
	       

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4.4-final: 28 bioset threads on small notebook Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-02-20 18:50 +0100
  Re: 4.4-final: 28 bioset threads on small notebook Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-02-20 19:50 +0100
    Re: 4.4-final: 28 bioset threads on small notebook Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> - 2016-02-20 21:00 +0100
      Re: 4.4-final: 28 bioset threads on small notebook Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-02-20 21:10 +0100
        Re: 4.4-final: 28 bioset threads on small notebook Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> - 2016-02-20 21:40 +0100
          Re: 4.4-final: 28 bioset threads on small notebook Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-02-20 22:00 +0100
            Re: 4.4-final: 28 bioset threads on small notebook Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 19:10 +0100
              RE: 4.4-final: 28 bioset threads on small notebook Ming Lin-SSI <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com> - 2016-02-21 20:50 +0100
                Re: 4.4-final: 28 bioset threads on small notebook Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-02-21 22:30 +0100

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