On Dec 21, 2007 16:39 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > @@ -3790,7 +3782,9 @@ repeat: > > /* if we still need more blocks and some PAs were used, try again */ > if (free < needed && busy) { > + busy = 0; > ext4_unlock_group(sb, group); > + schedule_timeout(HZ); > goto repeat; > } Is there nothing we could actually wait on instead of just sleeping for 1 second? Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html