On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 08:15:06AM +0100, Torsten Kaiser wrote: > On 11/7/07, David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Ok, so it's not synchronous writes that we are doing - we're just > > submitting bio's tagged as WRITE_SYNC to get the I/O issued quickly. > > The "synchronous" nature appears to be coming from higher level > > locking when reclaiming inodes (on the flush lock). It appears that > > inode write clustering is failing completely so we are writing the > > same block multiple times i.e. once for each inode in the cluster we > > have to write. > > Works for me. The only remaining stalls are sub second and look > completely valid, considering the amount of files being removed. .... > Tested-by: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Great - thanks for reporting the problem and testing the fix. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
