Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: 2.4.6 and ext3-2.4-0.9.1-246

[Andrew Morton]

Mike Black wrote:
> 
> Ummm...that would be the version(s) mentioned in the subject line???? :-)

doh.

OK, there was a nasty bug in 0.9.1 which I was not able to trigger
in a solid month's testing.  But others with more worthy hardware
were able to find it quite quickly.  Stephen fixed it in 0.9.2.
I don't know if it explains the failure you saw.  This:

	EXT3-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext3_new_inode: reserved
	inode or inode > inodes count - block_group = 0,inode=1

is nasty.  The LRU cache of inode bitmaps got wrecked.  Ugly.

Maybe one more try?

> My .config has
> # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
> # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
> I've got 2G of RAM
> 
> And the main thing I noticed was kswapd going nuts -- this was NOT observed
> with the same tiobench on ext2 (same filesystem).  The performance with ext3
> reduced by about 66% on two threads -- and I think that is due to kswapd
> hogging CPU time.

Yup.  I've nailed this one - it's lovely.

I'll be back.

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