Andreas suggested me to get the iozone results after multiple runs. I don't see any performance issue with the blk bitmap validation changes now. v2.6.24-rc3-35-g2e12044 ------------------------ File & VM system latencies in microseconds - smaller is better -------------------------------------------------------------- Host OS 0K File 10K File Mmap Prot Page Create Delete Create Delete Latency Fault Fault --------- ------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- ----- ----- elm3a150. Linux 2.6.24- 28.8 24.9 90.3 52.2 13.4K 1.796 3.00000 elm3a150. Linux 2.6.24- 29.2 25.1 90.3 52.0 13.4K 1.829 3.00000 elm3a150. Linux 2.6.24- 28.7 24.8 90.2 51.2 13.3K 1.971 3.00000 v2.6.24-rc3-35-g2e12044 + with block bitmap patch -------------------------------- File & VM system latencies in microseconds - smaller is better -------------------------------------------------------------- Host OS 0K File 10K File Mmap Prot Page Create Delete Create Delete Latency Fault Fault --------- ------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- ----- ----- elm3a150. Linux 2.6.24- 28.5 24.7 89.3 52.1 13.4K 1.785 3.00000 elm3a150. Linux 2.6.24- 28.7 24.9 89.4 52.2 13.3K 1.792 3.00000 elm3a150. Linux 2.6.24- 29.1 24.8 90.1 52.4 13.3K 1.779 3.00000 elm3a150. Linux 2.6.24- 29.2 24.9 90.4 52.0 13.9K 1.848 3.00000 iozones results are attached. ----------------------------