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Commit 105fd108 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] "ext[34]: EA block reference count racing fix" performance fix 



A little mistake in 8a2bfdcb is making all
transactions synchronous, which reduces ext3 performance to comical levels.

Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent cee9e8c5

fs/ext3/xattr.c

+2 −1
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -495,6 +495,7 @@ ext3_xattr_release_block(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, 
		BHDR(bh)->h_refcount = cpu_to_le32(

				le32_to_cpu(BHDR(bh)->h_refcount) - 1);

		error = ext3_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, bh);

		if (IS_SYNC(inode))

			handle->h_sync = 1;

		DQUOT_FREE_BLOCK(inode, 1);

		ea_bdebug(bh, "refcount now=%d; releasing",