Sam, can this be retested, I think we were getting into dirty page write amplification because of using vfat on a tmpfs backing store file. I've reworked the test now to use bog standard vfat on a loopbacked file.
Fix committed: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/autotest-client-tests.git/commit/?id=e39a7d03a6dbda3039514096737d72150877017b
Sam, can this be retested, I think we were getting into dirty page write amplification because of using vfat on a tmpfs backing store file. I've reworked the test now to use bog standard vfat on a loopbacked file.
Fix committed: http:// kernel. ubuntu. com/git/ ubuntu/ autotest- client- tests.git/ commit/ ?id=e39a7d03a6d bda303951409673 7d72150877017b