Re: [GIT PULL URGENT] ext4 regression fix for 3.9

Theodore Ts'o
2013-03-02T23:15:22Z

On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 11:54:37AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> This needs to be fixed or reverted. I traced back some user
> interaction problems to this same issue. It literally gets so bad that
> the whole system is choppy, and a profile shows that a lot of time is
> being spent in the spin-lock protecting these data structures. Called
> from ext4_es_reclaim_extents_count, ext4_es_lru_add and
> ext4_es_shrink.

I'm doing final testing on a pull request that will fix these
problems. I'll send it to you later this evening.

- Ted