Re: [PATCH] percpu_counter: Put a reasonable upper bound onpercpu_counter_batch

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Sep 06 2011 - 12:45:19 EST


On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 09:30:50AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> >> I chose to cap percpu_counter_batch at 1024 as a conservative first
> >> step, but we may want to reduce it further based on further benchmarking.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Applied to percpu/for-3.2.
>
> Um, this was an ext4 patch and I pointed out it could cause problems. (Specifically, data lossâ)

Ah okay, I thought you were talking about the first patch only.
Reverting for now.

Thanks.

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tejun
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