Re: [fuse-devel] Extended Attributes and Freezing Kernels

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

> 
> I was doing some tests on my FUSE project, and I noticed that doing a lot of 
> getxattr()s at once seems to cause the kernel to jerk around (or momentarily 
> lock) quite a bit.

Which kernel?

> My filesystem isn't doing anything unusual (it's doing stat()s on the "real" 
> filesystem, but not even the same partition as the music/player/etc.), so I 
> was wondering if perhaps there might be a latency or locking problem in FUSE 
> or the kernel.  Or could there be something stupid (aside from the obvious) 
> that I'm doing in my filesystem that's causing this?

Fuse doen't use any global locks that would explain this.

Thanks,
Miklos