Re: Strange performance change 59 -> 61/62

[Martin J. Bligh]

> OK.  We used to only run mark_inode_dirty() for atime updates just when it
> had actually changed.  ie: once per second.  But for reasons which remain
> obscure that was taken out.
> 
> This probably explains your ext3 woes.  Poor old ext3 has to do a ton of work
> in ext3_mark_inode_dirty(), yet on 99% of the calls, nothing has even
> changed.  Which is why I suggested that you retest ext3 with noatime.

Shall do - tommorow ;-)
 
> I shall fix it up.

Sounds great - thank you,

M.