I've tried applying these two patches to the ext4 patch queue. On a metadata-heavy workload (specifically, fsx), it causes a 5% degradation in the wall clock run-time of the fsx run-time. Maybe there's no way around that, but it's rather unfortunate.... - Ted -- 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