linux-ext4 - Re: A huge latency in ext4 and xfs because of stable page write

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Date:	Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:17:16 +0800
From:	Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com>
To:	Stefan Ring <stefanrin@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A huge latency in ext4 and xfs because of stable page write

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 08:23:43AM +0100, Stefan Ring wrote:
> >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg59421.html
> >
> > Thanks for pointing out.  So now it seems that only I can do is to
> > present a proposal to revert stable page write temporarily because it
> > causes a huge latency for some applications.
> 
> There has just been a write-up on the topic of stable pages in last
> week’s LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/528031/

Thanks, hopefully the new patch series can be applied as soon as
possible. :-)

Regards,
                                                - Zheng
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