Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [STUPID TESTCASE] ext3 htree vs. reiserfs on 2.5.40-mm1

Daniel Phillips
2002-10-10T00:20:50Z

On Friday 04 October 2002 19:09, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Oct 04, 2002 19:53 +0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:43:30PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > > What is very interesting from the above results is that the CPU usage
> > > is _much_ smaller for ext3+htree than for reiserfs. It looks like
> >
> > This is only in case of deletion, probably somehow related to constant item
> > shifting when some of the items are deleted.
>
> Well, even for creates it is 19% less CPU. The re-tested wall-clock
> time for htree creates is now less than the CPU usage of reiserfs, so
> it is impossible for reiserfs to achieve this number without
> optimization of the code somehow. For deletes the cpu usage of htree
> is 40% less, but we are currently not doing leaf block compaction, so
> there would probably be a slight performance hit to merge blocks
> (although we have some plans to do that efficiently also).

I convinced myself at some point that compaction will cost no more
than a couple of percent for deletes and nothing for creates.

--
Daniel