Hi Wu, if you're queueing up writeback changes can you look into splitting inode_wb_list_lock as it was done in earlier versions of the inode scalability patches? Especially if we don't get the I/O less balance_dirty_pages in ASAP it'll at least allows us to scale the busy waiting for the list manipulationes to one CPU per BDI. -- 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