Hi,

On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 02:24:07AM +0200, Juan J. Quintela wrote:

>         This patch is against test3-pre2.
> It gives here good performance in the first run, and very bad
> in the following ones of dbench 48.  I am hitting here problems with
> the locking scheme.  I get a lot of contention in __wait_on_supper.
> Almost all the dbench processes are waiting in:
> 
>            0xc013639c __wait_on_super+0x184 (0xc13f4c00)
>            0xc01523e5 ext2_alloc_block+0x21 (0xc4840c20, 0x12901d, 0xc7427ea0)

Known, and I did a patch for this ages ago.  It actually didn't make a
whole lot of difference.  The last version of the ext2 diffs I did for
this are included below.

--Stephen