These are the patches backported by Jayson R. King. I've eyeballed them, and run them through a xfsqa test run, and they look good to me. Greg, please apply them to the 2.6.27 kernel. - Ted Aneesh Kumar K.V (10): ext4: invalidate pages if delalloc block allocation fails. ext4: Make sure all the block allocation paths reserve blocks ext4: Add percpu dirty block accounting. ext4: Retry block reservation ext4: Retry block allocation if we have free blocks left ext4: Use tag dirty lookup during mpage_da_submit_io vfs: Remove the range_cont writeback mode. vfs: Add no_nrwrite_index_update writeback control flag ext4: Fix file fragmentation during large file write. ext4: Implement range_cyclic in ext4_da_writepages instead of write_cache_pages Mingming Cao (1): percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set() fs/ext4/balloc.c | 88 +++++++++--- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 13 ++ fs/ext4/ext4_sb.h | 1 + fs/ext4/inode.c | 314 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 39 +++-- fs/ext4/super.c | 8 +- include/linux/percpu_counter.h | 12 +- include/linux/writeback.h | 10 +- lib/percpu_counter.c | 8 +- mm/page-writeback.c | 16 +- 10 files changed, 360 insertions(+), 149 deletions(-) -- 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