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From: Richard Ems <richard.ems@cape-horn-eng.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS unlink still slow on 3.1.9 kernel ?
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:07:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F3BA011.8010006@cape-horn-eng.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120214194535.GB7399@infradead.org>

On 02/14/2012 08:45 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 01:32:00PM +0100, Richard Ems wrote:
>>> You won't if the directory traversal is seek bound and that is the
>>> limiting factor for performance.
>>
>> *Seek bound*? *When* is the directory traversal *seek bound*?
> 
> You read the inode for the directory first, then the external attribute
> block for the ACLs, then if the directory isn't tiny you'll start reading
> directory blocks, the more the larger the directory is, and if the
> filesystem is close to beeing full they often will be non-contiguous.
> Then you read the inode for each file/directory in it, then the external
> attribute block, then the extent list, and so on.

Ok, got it.

Many thanks,
Richard


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-15 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-13 16:57 XFS unlink still slow on 3.1.9 kernel ? Richard Ems
2012-02-13 17:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-13 17:11   ` Richard Ems
2012-02-13 17:15     ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-13 17:26       ` Richard Ems
2012-02-13 17:29         ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-13 17:53           ` Richard Ems
2012-02-13 18:02             ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-13 18:06               ` Richard Ems
2012-02-13 18:10                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-13 18:18                   ` Richard Ems
2012-02-13 18:48                   ` Richard Ems
2012-02-13 21:16                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-14  5:31                       ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-02-14  9:48                       ` Richard Ems
2012-02-14 19:43                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-14  9:49                       ` Richard Ems
2012-02-14 10:54                       ` Richard Ems
2012-02-14 11:44                       ` Richard Ems
2012-02-14  0:09 ` Dave Chinner
2012-02-14 12:32   ` Richard Ems
2012-02-14 19:45     ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-15 12:07       ` Richard Ems [this message]
2012-02-15  1:27     ` Dave Chinner
2012-02-15 12:07       ` Richard Ems
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-02-14 13:02 Richard Ems
     [not found] ` <4F3AA191.9030606@mnsu.edu>
2012-02-14 18:12   ` Richard Ems
2012-02-14 19:07     ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-15 12:48       ` Richard Ems
2012-02-14 23:10 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-02-15 15:54   ` Richard Ems

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