On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Dave, if you're testing my current -git, the other performance issue >> might still be the spinlock thing. > > I have the fix as the first commit in my local tree - it'll remain > there until I get a conflict after an update. :) Ok. I'm happy to report that you should get a conflict now, and that the spinlock code should work well for your virtualized case again. No updates on the plugging thing yet, I'll wait a bit and follow this thread and see if somebody comes up with any explanations or theories in the hope that we might not need to revert (or at least have a more targeted change). Linus -- 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