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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>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.