From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>,
Mike Benoit <ipso@snappymail.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: eliminate minimum window size for bitmap searching
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:07:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44EB9C28.9030204@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44EB28EC.50802@suse.com>
Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>
>
> Also, I think the bigalloc behavior just ultimately ends up introducing
> even more fragmentation on an already fragmented file system. It'll keep
> contiguous chunks together, but those chunks can end up being spread all
> over the disk.
>
> -Jeff
>
Yes, and almost as important, it makes it difficult to understand and
predict the allocator, which means other optimizations become harder to do.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-23 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-22 14:28 [PATCH] reiserfs: eliminate minimum window size for bitmap searching Jeff Mahoney
2006-08-22 15:33 ` David Masover
2006-08-22 15:55 ` Jeff Mahoney
2006-08-22 20:25 ` David Masover
2006-08-22 21:20 ` Jeff Mahoney
2006-08-23 0:11 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-23 0:38 ` Jeff Mahoney
2006-08-23 2:46 ` Clay Barnes
2006-08-23 2:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-23 0:07 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
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