From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: [PATCH 0/3] Ext3 latency improvement patches Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:24:28 -0400 Message-ID: <1238185471-31152-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Ext4 Developers List , jack@suse.cz To: Linux Kernel Developers List Return-path: Received: from THUNK.ORG ([69.25.196.29]:45715 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761597AbZC0UYf (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:24:35 -0400 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The following patches have been posted as providing at least some partial improvement to the ext3 latency problem that has been discussed on the 2.6.29 mongo-LKML-thread-that-would-not-die. I plan to push this to Linus during the 2.6.29 merge window if there are no huge objections. It is by no means a complete solution, but it should at least help the situation somewhat. It is also available via git: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git ext3-latency-fixes Comments? - Ted Jan Kara (1): ext3: Avoid starting a transaction in writepage when not necessary Theodore Ts'o (2): block_write_full_page: Use synchronous writes for WBC_SYNC_ALL writebacks ext3: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync()