Re: patch to support ext4 online resizing with meta block groups

2007-06-27 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jun 27, 2007 19:57 +0100, zuogui xie wrote: > To keep compatibility, we begin to use meta block groups after the > reserved block groups run out. superblock and single block group descriptor > block are placed at the beginning of the first, second, and last block > groups in a meta-block group.

Re: Performance testing results

2007-06-27 Thread Eric Sandeen
sftf wrote: > Hi! > IMHO this test is not 100% correct. > ext3 | data=writeback > ext4 | data=writeback,extents,delalloc > xfs | defaults is ordered ! > > So you have compared ext's in writeback (which fastest mode) vs xfs in > ordered. Actually xfs's default (only) mode is more like w

Re: Performance testing results

2007-06-27 Thread sftf
Hi! IMHO this test is not 100% correct. ext3 | data=writeback ext4 | data=writeback,extents,delalloc xfs | defaults is ordered ! So you have compared ext's in writeback (which fastest mode) vs xfs in ordered. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the

Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-06-27 Thread Nathan Scott
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 10:39 +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > > I don't think it does - swapfile I/O looks like it goes direct to > bio without passing through the filesystem. When the swapfile is > mapped, it scans and records the extent map of the entire swapfile > in a separate structure and AF

Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-06-27 Thread David Chinner
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:28:36AM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 23:36 +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > Allows setup_swap_extents() to use preallocated files on XFS > > filesystems for swap files without ever needing to convert them. > > Using unwritten extents (as opposed

Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-06-27 Thread Nathan Scott
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 23:36 +1000, David Chinner wrote: > Allows setup_swap_extents() to use preallocated files on XFS > filesystems for swap files without ever needing to convert them. Using unwritten extents (as opposed to the MKSWAP flag mentioned earlier) has the unfortunate down side of

Re: Performance testing results

2007-06-27 Thread Mingming Cao
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 18:15 +0200, Valerie Clement wrote: > Hi, > I re-ran some FFSB tests on ext3, ext4 and xfs filesystems, on a > 2.6.22-rc5 kernel and with the latest ext4-git-tree (update of June 26). > > The results are available here: > http://www.bullopensource.org/

Performance testing results

2007-06-27 Thread Valerie Clement
Hi, I re-ran some FFSB tests on ext3, ext4 and xfs filesystems, on a 2.6.22-rc5 kernel and with the latest ext4-git-tree (update of June 26). The results are available here: http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20070627/ffsb-write.html Regards, Valérie - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-06-27 Thread David Chinner
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:49:15PM -0400, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jun 27, 2007 09:14 +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > Someone on the XFs list had an interesting request - preallocated > > swap files. You can't use unwritten extents for this because > > of sys_swapon()s use of bmap() (XFS returns