Sander wrote on 01/29/06 23:25: > Andrew Morton wrote (ao): >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc1/2.6.16-rc1-mm4/ > >> +reiser4-big-update-bug-fix-for-readpage-fix.patch >> +reiser4-warnings-cleanup.patch >> +reiser4-do-not-use-get_user_pages-and-do-not-check.patch >> >> reiser4 fixes and cleanups > > Jumping from 2.6.15-rc1-mm1 to 2.6.16-rc1-mm4. > > For me the Reiser4 slowdown[1] reported on the Reiserfs mailinglist are > gone with this kernel. > > [1] http://humilis.net/reiser4slowdown.html >
FWIW, I just ran these tests on 2.6.16-rc1-mm3: kernel: 2.6.16-rc1-mm3 OS: Slackware 10.2 x86 Compiler: gcc (GCC) 3.3.6 Disk: SCSI on Adaptec 29160 single disk, no raid/lvm/etc. # for i in `seq 4`; do echo "foo" > test && time vim +"s/foo/bar/" +"wq" test &> /dev/null ; done real 0m2.637s user 0m0.032s sys 0m0.040s real 0m2.139s user 0m0.016s sys 0m0.008s real 0m2.137s user 0m0.020s sys 0m0.016s real 0m2.137s user 0m0.020s sys 0m0.008s # strace -T -e sync,fsync ./reiser4-fsync sync() = 0 <2.308290> fsync(3) = 0 <0.071363> -Joe
