Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:55:10 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] block/io bits for 2.6.35-rc | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> wrote: > > It's fixing a regression where umount takes a LONG time if you have > a lot of dirty inodes, since it basically degenerates to a data > integrity writeback instead of a simple WB_SYNC_NONE. If it wasn't > fixing a nasty regression (the distros are all wanting a real fix > for this, it's a user problem), I would not be submitting this code > at this point in time.
I'm not sure if you noticed, we had a separate thread with Dave Chinner that resulted in three hopefully fairly minimal patches going in instead.
See commits
git log -3 d87815cb2090
and I thought that last one (first one applied: "pay attention to wbc->nr_to_write") was the one that had fixed the worst XFS issues.
But maybe it was an unrelated thing.
Linus
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