"pcg"@goof.com ( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann ) wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:53:59PM +0200, Dirk Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > For me packing tails sounds like an excellent way to improve performance,
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> (not only for you)
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> > especially for lots of small files. That it performs much worse than
> > disabling this code in practice is difficult to understand for me and sounds
> > more like an implementation bug.
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> for one thing, most optimizations done by the vfs only work for aligned data.
> for tails you need a lot of copying. also I think the implementation is
> suboptimal, so I expect reiserfs to become even better ;)
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yes, in v4 tails will be better done, and will cause less pointer pollution
