Re: btrfs_tree_lock & trylock

[Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk>]

On Monday 08 September 2008 18:32:14 Ric Wheeler wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:49:42AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >> Not to mention the problem that developers seem to have faster machines
> >> than average user, but slower than the enterprise and future generation
> >> CPU's. So any tuning value seems to get out of date fast.
> >
> > So where do my fellow developers get these fast systems from? :)
>
> Actually, my experience is that most linux file system developers have
> really poking, aged hardware with little to no cutting edge storage (or
> even cutting edge commercial class storage). Testing file systems on lap
> tops and desktops with old CPUs, no DRAM and 40GB drives does not even
> reflect a typical home user these days :-)
>
Yeah but it means they really notice when the algorithm has been improved. 
It's character-building, or summat. ;-)