Re: Page cache using B-trees benchmark results

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Vishal Patil wrote:
> Folks
> 
> I am attaching the benchmark results for Page Cache Implementation
> using B-trees. I basically ran the tio (threaded i/o) benchmark
> against my kernel (with the B-tree implementation) and the Linux
> kernel shipped with FC5. Radix tree implementation is definately
> better however the B-tree implementation did not suck that bad :)
> 
> Also I attaching a new patch which was used for measuring the
> benchmarks. Also henceforth changes to the page will be tracked using
> the projected hosted at http://code.google.com/p/btreepc
> 
Thanks for this. I guess a purist would say that you need to run against 
the base kernel and base kernel plus your patches, but these numbers are 
certainly enough to support your conclusion.

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