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From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
To: bpm@sgi.com
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: nfs performance delta between filesystems
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:46:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100122214624.7095a9c4@galadriel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100122183848.GB28561@sgi.com>

Le Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:38:48 -0600 vous écriviez:

> There were small gains to be had by reordering the sync of the parent
> and child syncs where the two inodes were in the same cluster.  The
> larger problem seemed to be that we're not treating the log as stable
> storage. By calling write_inode_now we've written the changes to the
> log first and then gone and also written them out to the inode.  

I thought that using nobarrier would prevent the log operations to be
sync'd to disk too quickly? Could I possibly enhance this behaviour by
using an external log on a very fast storage (ramdisk...)?

> nfsd_create, nfsd_link, and nfsd_setattr all do this (or do in the old
> kernel I'm looking at).  I have a patchset that changes
> this to an fsync so we force the log and call it good.  I'll be happy
> to dust it off if someone hasn't already addressed this situation.

Well, if you think this patchset can be applied to a current kernel
without too much hacking I'm ready to give it a try :)

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-22 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-22 17:54 nfs performance delta between filesystems Emmanuel Florac
2010-01-22 18:38 ` bpm
2010-01-22 20:46   ` Emmanuel Florac [this message]
2010-01-23 12:30   ` Dave Chinner
2010-01-25 15:04   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-25 20:28     ` bpm
2010-01-25 20:40       ` Christoph Hellwig

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