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

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2012.12.12 at 21:32 +0800, Zheng Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 05:39:30AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > On 12/12/2012 1:23 AM, Stefan Ring wrote:
> > 
> > > The link should become available for non-subscribers tomorrow.
> > 
> > Plz don't post links to LWN articles until after the pay wall has
> > expired.  By doing so you're being very rude to fellow human beings who
> > expect, actually demand, that links provide the information within a few
> > seconds after being clicked.
> > 
> > Nobody waits 24 hrs for a link to load.  And nobody who will visit LWN
> > but 6 times a year will pay $84 for that privilege.  That's insane.
> 
> Oops, my apology.  I really don't realize this problem.  Thanks for
> pointing out.

Just send a free link:

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/528031/e7f2a5349a60cd44/

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Markus