Issue #2375 has been reported by Venkatesh Srinivas.

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Bug #2375: Wishlist: tmpfs directory lookup optimization
http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/2375

Author: Venkatesh Srinivas
Status: New
Priority: Normal
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Target version: 


tmpfs directories are structured as lists of directory entries; this leads to 
linear lookup costs. Directories with many files become fairly expensive to 
operate on.

http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~vsrinivas/tmpfs5.diff is a patch that introduces 
a 64-wide hash table (of lists) to speed up lookups. The patch is currently 
littered with debugging cruft and could benefit from cleaning.

http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~hofmann/tmpfs_rbtree.diff is a cleaner patch that 
uses an RB-tree, keyed on the name of the file in question.

Both approaches are solid improvements over the current lists, but could use 
some testing (benchmarking) to determine which is worth applying. The hash list 
patch has had many hours of fsstress testing; it now works well. The tree 
patches at the same points.



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