A huge latency in ext4 and xfs because of stable page write

[Stefan Ring]

>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg59421.html
>
> Thanks for pointing out.  So now it seems that only I can do is to
> present a proposal to revert stable page write temporarily because it
> causes a huge latency for some applications.

There has just been a write-up on the topic of stable pages in last
week’s LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/528031/

The link should become available for non-subscribers tomorrow.