On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 01:28:27PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > The onus is currently on filesystems to call file_update_time > somewhere in the page_mkwrite path. This is unfortunate for three > reasons: > > 1. page_mkwrite on a locked page should be fast. ext4, for example, > often sleeps while dirtying inodes. (This could be considered a > fixable problem with ext4, but this approach makes it > irrelevant.) Hi Andy, Out of curiosity, could you please share more detailed information about how to reproduce and measure this problem in ext4? Thanks - Zheng -- 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