Hi, Please consider pulling the following changes: The main feature this time is the new Orlov allocator and the patches leading up to it which allow us to allocate new inodes from their own allocation context, rather than borrowing that of their parent directory. It is this change which then allows us to choose a different location for subdirectories when required. This works exactly as per the ext3 implementation from the users point of view. In addition to that, we've got a speed up in gfs2_rbm_from_block() from Bob Peterson, three locking related improvements from Dave Teigland plus a selection of smaller bug fixes and clean ups. The following changes since commit 0e4a43ed08e2f44aa7b96aa95d0a540d675483e1: Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-fixes (2012-11-07 13:38:56 +0100) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw.git master Bob Peterson (7): GFS2: Speed up gfs2_rbm_from_block GFS2: Rename glops go_xmote_th to go_sync GFS2: Use dirty_inode in gfs2_dir_add GFS2: Eliminate redundant buffer_head manipulation in gfs2_unlink_inode GFS2: don't reference inode's glock during block allocation trace GFS2: add error check while allocating new inodes GFS2: Set gl_object during inode create David Teigland (3): GFS2: skip dlm_unlock calls in unmount GFS2: only use lvb on glocks that need it GFS2: remove redundant lvb pointer Steven Whitehouse (6): GFS2: Review bug traps in glops.c GFS2: Add test for resource group congestion status GFS2: Use proper allocation context for new inodes GFS2: Add Orlov allocator GFS2: Fix truncation of journaled data files GFS2: Fix one RG corner case fs/gfs2/aops.c | 2 +- fs/gfs2/bmap.c | 54 ++++++++++++- fs/gfs2/dir.c | 7 +-- fs/gfs2/file.c | 4 +- fs/gfs2/glock.c | 40 ++++++---- fs/gfs2/glock.h | 54 +++++++------- fs/gfs2/glops.c | 19 +++-- fs/gfs2/incore.h | 6 +- fs/gfs2/inode.c | 209 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ fs/gfs2/lock_dlm.c | 20 ++++- fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c | 3 + fs/gfs2/quota.c | 10 +- fs/gfs2/rgrp.c | 139 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- fs/gfs2/rgrp.h | 3 +- fs/gfs2/trace_gfs2.h | 2 +- fs/gfs2/xattr.c | 2 +- 16 files changed, 380 insertions(+), 194 deletions(-)