Re: [PATCH 00/14] repair memory usage reductions

Geoffrey Wehrman
2009-09-04T13:46:21Z

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:57:53PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
| Christoph asked me to repeat what I said on #xfs w.r.t the regression.

Thank you for the detailed description. All I had was a statement from
January 2008, "Barry has completed the memory optimization, but initial
testing shows that performance has regressed." That was the last update
recorded on Barry's work.

| With that in mind, I think the memory usage optimisation is far more
| important to the majority of XFS users than the CPU usage regression
| it causes as the majority of users don't have RAM-rich environments
| to run repair in.

I agree.

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