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SubjectRe: 21 million inodes is causing severe pauses.
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> > > At this point, I have checked the entire code path and see no reason the
> > > BKL is held for the first call to invalidate_inodes.
> >
> > No, the above change looks fine. And I have no problem merging up
> > invalidate_inodes-speedup.patch, really - it's been in -mm for over a year.
> > I've just been waiting for a decent reason to merge it.
>
> I would strongly encourage merging the three patches we have talked about
> here. I understand you would typically keep my BKL patch in your tree for
> awhile and think that would be just fine. The changes only affect systems
> that have filesystems being unmounted with a large number of inodes.
>
> With the two patches already in your tree, the pauses are greatly reduced
> for the autofs case that originally got me looking.

OK. It's a bit late for 2.6.10 but I was planning on slurping the whole
lot into 2.6.11 anyway.

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