Re: Filesystem Tests

[Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>]

Hans Reiser wrote:

> reiser4 cpu consumption is still dropping rapidly as others and I find 
> kruft in the code and remove it.  Major kruft remains still.


If a file system is getting greater throughput, that means the relevant 
code is being run more, which means more CPU will be used for the 
purpose of setting up DMA, etc.  That is, if a FS gets twice the 
throughput, it would not be unreasonable to expect it to use 2x the CPU 
time.

Furthermore, in order to achieve greater throughput, one has to write 
more intelligent code.  More intelligent code is probably going to 
require more computation time.

That is to say, if your FS is twice as fast, saying it has a problem 
purely on the basis that it's using more CPU ignores certain facts and 
basic logic.

Now, if you can manage to make it twice as fast while NOT increasing the 
CPU usage, well, then that's brilliant, but the fact that ReiserFS uses 
more CPU doesn't bother me in the least.