Re: page fault scalability (ext3, ext4, xfs)

Andi Kleen
2013-08-15T02:24:06Z

> And FWIW, it's no secret that XFS has more per-operation overhead
> than ext4 through the write path when it comes to allocation, so
> it's no surprise that on a workload that is highly dependent on
> allocation overhead that ext4 is a bit faster....

This cannot explain a worse scaling curve though?

w-i-s is all about scaling.

-Andi