Re: btrfs_tree_lock & trylock

2008-09-08 Thread Steve Long
On Monday 08 September 2008 18:32:14 Ric Wheeler wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:49:42AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > >> Not to mention the problem that developers seem to have faster machines > >> than average user, but slower than the enterprise and future ge

Re: btrfs_tree_lock & trylock

2008-09-08 Thread Steve Long
On Monday 08 September 2008 16:28:34 Chris Mason wrote: > > People seem to repeatedly come up with adaptive mutex based on intuitive > > hunch, and never do much analysis before or afterwards. > > In my case, it very easy to measure. Just watch the context switch rate > on any metadata intensive w

Testsuite

2008-09-04 Thread Steve Long
Sorry for delay in replying, was on holiday. Firstly: thanks for your patience; I was a bit brusque, and for that I must apologise. On Monday 25 August 2008 22:56:50 Miguel Sousa Filipe wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &

Testsuite (was: Re: Hi!)

2008-08-25 Thread Steve Long
> Testing, discussing and reporting bugs are a great first step. > Just wondering whether btrfs has, or might want, something like this: http://blogs.sun.com/bill/entry/zfs_and_the_all_singing I don't have anything like it from btrfs-progs, apart from btrfs-debug-tree. I'm sure you're doing tests

Re: Hi!

2008-08-24 Thread Steve Long
On Thursday 21 August 2008 11:47:03 Miguel Sousa Filipe wrote: > > Testing, discussing and reporting bugs are a great first step. > > One thing that I would like to see, is how btrfs behaves with eavy > uses of version control systems like: > - git > - hg > > big repos, greps, finds, and stuff like