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From: "Holden Karau" <holden@pigscanfly.ca>
To: "Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Josef Sipek" <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>,
	hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	holdenk@xandros.com, "akpm@osdl.org" <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] fat: improve sync performance by grouping writes in fat_mirror_bhs [really unmangled]
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:55:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f46018bb0610271155kaccbf61p86b590a9c1580b06@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4540AA20.1090005@yahoo.com.au>

Based on some rather off-the cuff bench marking I've done I get around
a 5 to 10% performance improve over the stock 2.6.18.1 performance. As
the saying goes, there are lies, damn lies, and bench marks, so YMMV.

On 10/26/06, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Holden Karau wrote:
> > From: Holden Karau <holden@pigscanfly.ca> http://www.holdenkarau.com
> >
> > This is an attempt at improving fat_mirror_bhs in sync mode [namely it
> > writes all of the data for a backup block, and then blocks untill
> > finished]. The old behaviour would write & block in smaller chunks, so
> > this should be slightly faster. It also removes the fixme requesting
> > that it be fixed to behave this way :-)
> > Signed-off-by: Holden Karau <holden@pigscanfly.ca> http://www.holdenkarau.com
>
> So how much is performance improved?
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-27 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-26 11:59 [PATCH 1/1] fat: improve sync performance by grouping writes in fat_mirror_bhs [really unmangled] Holden Karau
2006-10-26 12:29 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-27 18:55   ` Holden Karau [this message]
2006-10-26 15:30 ` Jörn Engel
2006-10-27 18:56   ` Holden Karau
2006-10-27 21:01 ` Josef Sipek

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