I've found a couple small problems in the ext4_da_writepages path; 1) ext4_num_dirty_pages() can continue looping after max_pages is reached - this leads to wasted cpu cycles during writeback 2) bumping nr_to_write can wrap if we started with LONG_MAX - Not sure of all ramifications, but nr_to_write = -8 can't be good -Eric -- 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