Thanks for all the tests! This looks like a very different from the one originally reported in this bug. The original issue was specific to ext4 filesystem while what you report now seems like a general slow down (just affecting different filesystems to different extent - see how XFS build on goat19 takes over 600s with TW kernel on XFS while it takes just 189s with 15.1 kernel on ext4 - it would be good to get comparison with 15.1 build on XFS but I'd expect it to be close to ext4 numbers on that kernel). So I'll clone this bug so that we don't confuse this bug.