> 4. Performance test was done using the program available from the > following link: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14493 > > Result: the impact of the changes was negligible for files of a few > hundred megabytes.
Could you also test with ext4 and post some numbers? Afaik, ext4 uses nanosecond timestamps, so the time updating code would be exercised more during the page faults. What about performance impact on msync(MS_ASYNC)? Could you please do some measurment of that as well? Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/