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From: Stef Bon <stefbon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/09] cifs: local caching support using FS-Cache
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:35:55 +0200
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Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
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In my opinion there should be article published about this, describing
fs-cache generally, and these kinds of benchmarks!

Using fs-cache for network filesystem is an important issue, and
should get "exposure".

Stef Bon

2010/7/23 Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>:
> On 2010-07-22, at 11:40, David Howells wrote:
>> Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de> wrote:
>>> As it can been seen, the performance while reading when data is cac=
he
>>> hot (disk) is not great as the network link is a Gigabit ethernet (=
with
>>> server having working set in memory) which is mostly expected.
>>
>> That's what I see with NFS and AFS too.
>>
>>> (I could not get access to a slower network (say 100 Mb/s) where th=
e real
>>> performance boost could be evident).
>
> More interesting than a slow network is testing with more clients. =C2=
=A010 clients should be able to get 10x the read performance from the c=
lient-local cache, probably more than the server's peak disk/network ba=
ndwidth.
>
> Cheers, Andreas
>
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