Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA))

Chris Friesen
2002-10-07T18:54:24Z

Andrew Morton wrote:

> Go into ext2_new_inode, replace the call to find_group_dir with
> find_group_other. Then untar a kernel tree, unmount the fs,
> remount it and see how long it takes to do a
>
> `find . -type f xargs cat > /dev/null'
>
> on that tree. If your disk is like my disk, you will achieve
> full disk bandwidth.

Pardon my ignorance, but what's the difference between find_group_dir
and find_group_other, and why aren't we using find_group_other already
if its so much faster?

Chris