On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:04:32AM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
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> Beyond the FUSE/LOOP fun, will you apply this patch to your linux-next GIT tree?
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> Feel free to add...
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> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
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> A similiar patch for JBD went through your tree into mainline (see [1] and [2]).
I'm not at all convinced that this patch has anything to do with your
problem. I don't see how it could affect things, and I believe you
mentioned that you saw the problem even with this patch applied? (I'm
not sure; some of your messages which you sent were hard to
understand, and you mentioned something about trying to send messages
when low on sleep :-).
In any case, the reason why I haven't pulled this patch into the ext4
tree is because I was waiting for Eric and some of the performance
team folks at Red Hat to supply some additional information about why
this commit was making a difference in performance for a particular
proprietary, closed source benchmark.
I'm very suspicious about applying patches under the "cargo cult"
school of programming. ("We don't understand why it makes a
difference, but it seems to be good, so bombs away!" :-)
Regards,
- Ted
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