On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 14:29, camis wrote: > > Seem to run fine so far with > > rw,noatime,nodiratime,acl,user_xattr,data=ordered,alloc=skip_busy:dirid_groups,packing_groups > > Has anyone done any throughput/benchmarks for the various > new patches/code? > The block allocator stuff is fresh from the oven and still warm inside. I'll be posting benchmarks for it as the week goes on.
> >The block allocator improvements is our attempt to reduce > >fragmentation. The patch defaults to the regular 2.6.5 block allocator, > >but has options documented at the top of the patch that allow grouping > >of blocks by packing locality or object id. It also has an option to > >inherit lightly used packing localities across multiple subdirs, which > >keeps things closer together in the tree if you have a bunch of subdirs > >without much in them. > > Any of these new features documented anywhere? ;) I'm writing up a mount option summary, the block allocator stuff is all documented at the top of the patch. -chris
