Re: 21 million inodes is causing severe pauses.

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> wrote:
>
>  > > At this point, I have checked the entire code path and see no reason the
>  > > BKL is held for the first call to invalidate_inodes.
>  > 
>  > No, the above change looks fine.  And I have no problem merging up
>  > invalidate_inodes-speedup.patch, really - it's been in -mm for over a year.
>  > I've just been waiting for a decent reason to merge it.
> 
>  I would strongly encourage merging the three patches we have talked about
>  here.  I understand you would typically keep my BKL patch in your tree for
>  awhile and think that would be just fine.  The changes only affect systems
>  that have filesystems being unmounted with a large number of inodes.
> 
>  With the two patches already in your tree, the pauses are greatly reduced
>  for the autofs case that originally got me looking.

OK.  It's a bit late for 2.6.10 but I was planning on slurping the whole
lot into 2.6.11 anyway.