Jens Axboe 3030fd4cb7 io-wq: remove spin-for-work optimization
Andres reports that buffered IO seems to suck up more cycles than we
would like, and he narrowed it down to the fact that the io-wq workers
will briefly spin for more work on completion of a work item. This was
a win on the networking side, but apparently some other cases take a
hit because of it. Remove the optimization to avoid burning more CPU
than we have to for disk IO.

Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-02-25 08:57:37 -07:00
2020-01-18 09:19:18 -05:00
2020-02-23 16:17:42 -08:00

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