Re: [BK][PATCH] Reiser4, will double Linux FS performance, pleaseapply

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Andrew Morton wrote:

>Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>Green and Zam and Umka, on Monday please start work on seriously
>>analyzing how the block allocation differs between the new and the old
>>kernel, now that you can finally reproduce the benchmark on the old kernel.
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>I just sent the Orlov allocator patch to Linus.  It will double or
>triple ext2 performance in that test, so please make sure you compare
>against the latest.  There's a copy at
>http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.45/shpte-stuff/broken-out/orlov-allocator.patch
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>We can expect similar gains for ext3, when that's done.
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>(The 2x-3x is on an 8meg filesystem.  Larger filesystems should
>gain more)
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Well, if we are only 2.5 times as fast for writes as ext3 after your 
patch is applied, I'll still feel good.;-)  

Better benchmarks will be conducted during the next 3 months, the ones 
we have are still a bit raw....

-- 
Hans