Could we have this for 2.4.18+ pending also please? Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oleg Drokin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] fsync() Performance Issue
> Hello! > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 04:28:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm wondering if anyone out there may have some suggestions on how > > to improve the performance of a system employing fsync(). I have to be able > > to guaranty that every write to my fileserver is on disk when the client has > > passed it to the server. Therefore, I have disabled write cache on the disk > > and issue an fsync() per file. I'm running 2.4.19-pre7, reiserfs 3.6.25, > > without additional patches. I have seen some discussions out here about > > various other "speed-up" patches and am wondering if I need to add these to > > 2.4.19-pre7? And what they are and where can I obtain said patches? Also, > > I'm wondering if there is another solution to syncing the data that is > > faster than fsync(). Testing, thusfar, has shown a large disparity between > > running with and without sync.Another idea is to explore another filesystem, > > but I'm not exactly excited by the other journaling filesystems out there at > > this time. All ideas will be greatly appreciated. > > Attached is a speedup patch for 2.4.19-pre7 that should help your fsync > operations a little. (From Chris Mason). > Filesystem cannot do very much at this point unfortunatelly, it is ending up > waiting for disk to finish write operations. > > Also we are working on other speedup patches that would cover different areas > of write perfomance itself. > > Bye, > Oleg >
