From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] map multiple blocks in get_block() and mpage_readpages()
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:32:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060303123222.2fff68cf.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141405539.10542.68.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com>
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 17:52 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I noticed decent improvements (reduced sys time) on JFS, XFS and ext3.
> > > (on simple "dd" read tests).
> > >
> > > (rc3.mm1) (rc3.mm1 + patches)
> > > real 0m18.814s 0m18.482s
> > > user 0m0.000s 0m0.004s
> > > sys 0m3.240s 0m2.912s
> >
> > With which filesystem? XFS and JFS implement a larger-than-b_size
> > ->get_block, but ext3 doesn't. I'd expect ext3 system time to increase a
> > bit, if anything?
>
> These numbers are on JFS. With the current ext3 (mainline) - I did
> find not-really-noticible increase in sys time (due to code overhead).
>
> I tested on ext3 with Mingming's ext3 getblocks() support in -mm also,
> which showed reduction in sys time.
>
OK, no surprises there. Things will improve when someone gets around to
doing multi-block get_block for ext3.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-03 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-27 21:20 [PATCH 0/4] map multiple blocks in get_block() and mpage_readpages() Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-27 21:22 ` [PATCH 1/4] change buffer_head.b_size to size_t Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-02 1:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-02 1:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-02 2:22 ` Nathan Scott
2006-03-02 2:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-06 19:54 ` Tim Pepper
2006-02-27 21:23 ` [PATCH 2/4] pass b_size to ->get_block() Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-02 1:52 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 17:17 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-27 21:24 ` [PATCH 3/4] map multiple blocks for mpage_readpages() Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-02 4:45 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 16:51 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-27 21:24 ` [PATCH 4/4] remove ->get_blocks() support Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-02 1:52 ` [PATCH 0/4] map multiple blocks in get_block() and mpage_readpages() Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 17:05 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-03 20:32 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-03-03 21:54 ` Badari Pulavarty
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