Re: reiserfs patch for 2.4.0-final

[Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>]

On Friday, January 05, 2001 02:54:53 PM -0200 Rik van Riel
<riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Evans wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
>> 
>> > > Could someone create one single patch for the 2.4.0 ?
>> > > 
>> > I put all the code into CVS, and Yura is making the official patch now.
>> 
>> Since 2.4.0 final should fix a few i/o performance issues
>> (particuarly under heavy write loads), a quick few ext2 vs.
>> reiserfs benchmarks would make very interesting reading ;-)
> 
> An easy way to gain a performance edge on ext2 would
> be to do proper write clustering in the reiserfs
> ->writepage() function...  </hint>
> 

;-)

The current 2.4 code has lots of room for tuning, since I've been trying to
keep it clean/stable for now (and our dbench numbers show it).  The first
optimization is tuning for reiserfs_get_block, I think writepage clustering
will be easier (and more beneficial) if we work out the buffer.c changes
I've been posting.

I also want to change the log block allocation a bit, so the log blocks are
allocated as the transaction progresses, instead of all at the end.  I
think that will make us much more VM friendly, and let me get rid of the
inode writing kludges.  It'll be a busy weekend ;-)

-chris

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