Re: [PATCH] xfs: avoid synchronous transactions when deleting attr blocks

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On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:45:11AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Currently xfs_attr_inactive causes a synchronous transactions if we are
> removing a file that has any extents allocated to the attribute fork, and
> thus makes XFS extremely slow at removing files with out of line extended
> attributes. The code looks a like a relict from the days before the busy
> extent list, but with the busy extent list we avoid reusing data and attr
> extents that have been freed but not commited yet, so this code is just
> as superflous as the synchronous transactions for data blocks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>

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