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

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Message-ID: <20130301033005.GA7081@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:30:05 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>,
	"gnehzuil.liu" <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com>,
	Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL URGENT] ext4 regression fix for 3.9

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 03:12:17PM -0500, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > The following changes since commit 304e220f0879198b1f5309ad6f0be862b4009491:
 > 
 >   ext4: fix free clusters calculation in bigalloc filesystem (2013-02-22 15:27:52 -0500)
 > 
 > are available in the git repository at:
 > 
 >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git tags/ext4_for_linus
 > 
 > for you to fetch changes up to 8e919d13048cd5acaadb2b15b48acbfb8832d3c2:
 > 
 >   ext4: fix extent status tree regression for file systems > 512GB (2013-02-27 14:54:37 -0500)
 > 
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------
 > This fixes a real brown paper bag bug which causes ext4 to choke on
 > file systems larger than 512GB.
 > 
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------
 > Theodore Ts'o (1):
 >       ext4: fix extent status tree regression for file systems > 512GB
 > 
 >  fs/ext4/extents_status.h | 19 +++++++++++--------
 >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

This has fixed the problem I reported, but I notice now that my desktop is really
sluggish. perf top shows it's almost constantly spinning in ext4_es_reclaim_extents_count

Any ideas ?

	Dave

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