What were you trying to do that didn't work?

After kernel upgrade from 5.14.0-162* to 5.14.0-284*, customer is experiencing a severe performance regression with directory listings, with the client performing many extra and unnecessary calls.

Please provide the package NVR for which bug is seen:

kernel-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2

How reproducible:

always for customer; did not reproduce in-house

Steps to reproduce

 mount cifs filesystem

 time find /mnt/path >/dev/null

compare time between RHEL 9.1 kernel and RHEL 9.2 kernel

Expected results

# time find . >/dev/nullreal    0m12.432s
user    0m0.008s
sys     0m0.043s

Actual results

# time find . >/dev/nullreal    0m52.253s
user    0m0.005s
sys     0m0.158s{}