This series tries to reduce the amount we hold the ilock exclusively, especially during direct I/O writes where they currently hurt us. Dave showed that his earlier version which is less aggressive than this one can already provide magnitudes of better throughput and iops for parallel direct I/O workloads, and this one should be even better. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
