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From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Ext4 slow on links
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:50:04 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120621045004.GD18182@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE29DA7.40405@redhat.com>

Hi Eric,

wow, thanks again.

On Mi, 20 Jun 2012, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Hm.  Upstream coreutils fixed this for rm and some other ops:

Ok, I see.

> sorted took 2.6s, unsorted took 52s.

Got the idea, and tried it now myself not with ls etc, but
with the program that generates the caos, and yes, stracing it
gives the same result, getdents and the followed stats are all
*not* in inode order.

So that means, it should be fixed in glibc? Right? Ouuchhh...

That means that this behaviour is for *each* program using getdent
etc ...

Do you have any suggestions? Is there a way to force readdir (I guess
most people use readdir instead of getdents directly) to iterate
in inode order?



Best wishes

Norbert
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-21  4:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-20  0:20 Ext4 slow on links Norbert Preining
2012-06-20  2:19 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-06-20  3:38   ` Norbert Preining
2012-06-20  3:57     ` Eric Sandeen
2012-06-20  4:01       ` Norbert Preining
2012-06-20  5:18       ` Norbert Preining
2012-06-20 14:07         ` Eric Sandeen
2012-06-20 19:35       ` Eric Sandeen
2012-06-21  2:28         ` Norbert Preining
2012-06-21  4:05           ` Eric Sandeen
2012-06-21  4:50             ` Norbert Preining [this message]
2012-06-21  5:18               ` Andreas Dilger
2012-06-21  6:55                 ` Norbert Preining
2012-06-22  9:53             ` Bernd Schubert
2012-06-22 14:08               ` Ted Ts'o
2012-06-20  3:15 ` Eric Sandeen

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