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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: Paolo Ciarrocchi <ciarrocchi@linuxmail.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [Benchmark] AIM9 results
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:25:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DFE60EC.3DDA2669@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DFE5D3B.4030402@namesys.com

Hans Reiser wrote:
> 
> Andrew and Chris, are these changes in performance definitely due to VM
> changes (and not some difference I am not thinking of between 2.5 and
> 2.4 reiserfs code)?
> 

aim9 is just doing

	for (lots)
		close(creat(filename))

ie: deleting a zero-length file.

So I changed inode_setattr() to not call into the filesystem
at all if i_size was not being altered.  Not a very interesting
optimisation, but it was simple to do.

It seems that reiserfs_truncate() has a lot of setup overhead.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-16 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-16 22:52 [Benchmark] AIM9 results Paolo Ciarrocchi
2002-12-16 23:09 ` Hans Reiser
2002-12-16 23:25   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-12-16 23:37     ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-17  0:00       ` Hans Reiser
2002-12-18 18:47         ` Cliff White
2002-12-18 19:10           ` Nikita Danilov
2002-12-23  7:13           ` Hans Reiser
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-10 22:10 [BENCHMARK] " Paolo Ciarrocchi
2002-11-28 13:41 [Benchmark] " Paolo Ciarrocchi
     [not found] <r1_20021126213149.29517.qmail@linuxmail.org>
2002-11-28 13:18 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-11-27 22:55 Paolo Ciarrocchi
2002-11-26 21:31 Paolo Ciarrocchi

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