On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 10:49:05PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > XFS does its own data writeout from several places using xfs_flush_pages(). > When this writeout is racing with flusher thread writing the same inode the > performance gets bad because flusher thread submits writes as normal WRITE > commands while xfs_flush_pages() submits them as WRITE_SYNC (as it uses Oh, I think you really want commit xfs: improve sync behaviour in the face of aggressive dirtying for your vendor tree. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs