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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] [XFSQA] Reduce the number of processes forked
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:23:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090316062313.GA30641@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237114181-18431-2-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 09:49:39PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> One of the big cpu time consumers when running xfsqa on UML
> is forking of new processes. when looping lots of times,
> using 'expr' to calculate the loop counter increment means
> we fork at least once every loop. using shell builtins means
> that we don't fork and many tests run substantially faster.
> 
> Some tests are even runnable with this modification. e.g. 110
> went from taking 4500s to run down to 9s with the loop iterators
> changed to avoid forking.

Looks good.

Care to see if any tests should be added to the quick group after this?
The above 110 sounds like a candidate for that.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-16  6:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-15 10:49 [PATCH 0/3] [XFSQA] Optimisations and ENOSPC tests Dave Chinner
2009-03-15 10:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] [XFSQA] Reduce the number of processes forked Dave Chinner
2009-03-16  6:23   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-03-15 10:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] [XFSQA] Add simple delayed allocation ENOSPC test Dave Chinner
2009-03-16  6:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-03-15 10:49 ` [PATCH 3/3] [XFSQA] Test writing to ENOSPC Dave Chinner
2009-03-16  6:27   ` Christoph Hellwig

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