Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext3 writepages for writeback mode

2005-02-14 Thread Sonny Rao
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:02:56PM -0500, Sonny Rao wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 04:09:46PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:58, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Due to lack of interesting suggestions to solve > >

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext3 writepages for writeback mode

2005-02-14 Thread Sonny Rao
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 04:09:46PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:58, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Due to lack of interesting suggestions to solve > > > mpage_writepages() -> ext3_writeback_writepage() problem, > > > I

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext3 writepages for writeback mode

2005-02-14 Thread Alex Tomas
> Badari Pulavarty (BP) writes: BP> Sure. I think it will improve the allocation case. BP> Non-allocation case, should be pretty much same, provided BP> I got contiguous layout on the disk. Isn't it ? not allocation only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# time /work/tests/fwrite /test/fff 64 1000

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext3 writepages for writeback mode

2005-02-14 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 15:29, Alex Tomas wrote: > > Badari Pulavarty (BP) writes: > > >> UP, after: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# time /work/tests/fwrite /test/fff 64 1 > >> real0m21.452s user0m0.026s sys 0m6.105s > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# time /work/tests/fwrite /test/f

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext3 writepages for writeback mode

2005-02-12 Thread Alex Tomas
> Badari Pulavarty (BP) writes: >> UP, after: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# time /work/tests/fwrite /test/fff 64 1 >> real0m21.452s user0m0.026s sys 0m6.105s >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# time /work/tests/fwrite /test/fff 64 1 >> real0m23.317s user0m0.027s sys

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext3 writepages for writeback mode

2005-02-12 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Alex Tomas wrote: Badari Pulavarty (BP) writes: BP> Test: writes 10,000 blocks of 64k and does fdatasync(). The patch doesn't apply ;) after a minor correction I've tested the patch too: ... UP, after: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# time /work/tests/fwrite /test/fff 64 1 real0m21.452s user0

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext3 writepages for writeback mode

2005-02-12 Thread Alex Tomas
> Badari Pulavarty (BP) writes: BP> Thank you for testing and confirming the results. BP> Is this on a simple single disk configuration ? nope, the box boxes connect to 2disks raid0 via FC1. but the disks are damn old ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-f

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext3 writepages for writeback mode

2005-02-12 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Alex Tomas wrote: Badari Pulavarty (BP) writes: BP> Test: writes 10,000 blocks of 64k and does fdatasync(). The patch doesn't apply ;) after a minor correction I've tested the patch too: SMP, before: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# time /work/tests/fwrite /test/fff 64 1 real0m17.748s user0m0

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext3 writepages for writeback mode

2005-02-12 Thread Alex Tomas
> Badari Pulavarty (BP) writes: BP> Test: writes 10,000 blocks of 64k and does fdatasync(). The patch doesn't apply ;) after a minor correction I've tested the patch too: SMP, before: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# time /work/tests/fwrite /test/fff 64 1 real0m17.748s user0m0.032s sys