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

2013-03-02 Thread Theodore Ts'o
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

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

2013-03-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > ext4_es_reclaim_extents_count() is getting called out of the slab > shrinker. It's getting called too often when there is significant > memory pressure. We can optimize this so we're not calculating it all > the time. This needs to be fi

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

2013-02-28 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:30:05PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > 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 ? ext4_es_reclaim_extents_count() is getti

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

2013-02-28 Thread Dave Jones
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: > >

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

2013-02-27 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:23:18PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 03:12:17PM -0500, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> The following changes since commit > >> 304e220f0879198b1f5309ad6f0be862b4009491: > > > > Obviously, th

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

2013-02-27 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 03:12:17PM -0500, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> The following changes since commit 304e220f0879198b1f5309ad6f0be862b4009491: > > Obviously, this wasn't from Linus. I screwed up on sending the pull > request. Sigh... Tha

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

2013-02-27 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 03:12:17PM -0500, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The following changes since commit 304e220f0879198b1f5309ad6f0be862b4009491: Obviously, this wasn't from Linus. I screwed up on sending the pull request. Sigh... - Ted -- To unsubsc