On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 00:41:03 -0600 Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The big performance win will come with mballoc and delalloc. CFS has > been using mballoc for a few years already with Lustre, and IBM + Bull > did a lot of benchmarking on it. The reason it isn't in the first set of > patches is partly a manageability issue, and partly because it doesn't > directly affect the on-disk format (outside of much better allocation) > so it isn't critical to get into the first round of changes. I believe > Alex is working on a new set of patches right now. Are you sure that these things will improve allocation much? Reservations made a big improvement there. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
