On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 09:07:59 -0400, Brian Foster wrote: > We've had reports of significant performance regression of sub-block > (unaligned) direct writes due to the added exclusivity restrictions > in ext4. The purpose of the exclusivity requirement for unaligned > direct writes is to avoid data corruption caused by unserialized > partial block zeroing in the iomap dio layer across overlapping > writes. > > [...] Applied, thanks! [1/1] ext4: allow concurrent unaligned dio overwrites commit: d3dfa834d0c6c6a168a745185fe6a64c901c186f Best regards, -- Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>