LWN: Comments on "The first half of the 6.10 merge window"

The first half of the 6.10 merge window

mb — Fri, 17 May 2024 14:59:31 +0000

Can't you just renice the workqueues from userspace?

The first half of the 6.10 merge window

intgr — Fri, 17 May 2024 11:00:23 +0000

> The dm-crypt device-mapper target has a new high_priority option that allows it to use high-priority workqueues for its processing. This option can improve performance on larger systems, but defaults to "off" to avoid creating latency problems for other workloads (such as audio processing) on smaller systems.

Sounds like there should be multiple priority levels?

The first half of the 6.10 merge window

pbonzini — Thu, 16 May 2024 22:02:39 +0000

Oh, so in the end there's a single type for both absolute times and deltas. It would be interesting to have a summary of what happened since https://lwn.net/Articles/924746/.

(Referring to the Rust ktime_t abstraction).