Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:05:21 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 21 million inodes is causing severe pauses. |
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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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