On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:03:49PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Yes, doing the stat just on the directory (on leaf directories only, of > course, but nlink==2 does say that on most filesystems) is indeed a huge > potential speedup.
Here I measure about 6ms for cache --- essentially below the noise threshold for something that does real work. > It doesn't matter so much for the cached case, but it _does_ matter > for the uncached one. Doing the minimal stat cold-cache here is about 6s for local disk. I'm somewhat surprised it's that bad actually. - 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/
