Re: Trimming VFS inodes?

2000-07-03 Thread Richard Gooch
Alexander Viro writes: > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: Sigh. It's taken me far to long to get back to this. > > > Not only that, actually - order of invalidation was incorrect, IIRC. > > > > Let me check I understand what you mean. You're concerned about the > > way I *invalidate

PATCH: Trying to get back IO performance (WIP)

2000-07-03 Thread Juan J. Quintela
Hi This patch is against test3-pre2. It gives here good performance in the first run, and very bad in the following ones of dbench 48. I am hitting here problems with the locking scheme. I get a lot of contention in __wait_on_supper. Almost all the dbench processes are waiting in: 0xc7

Re: PATCH: Trying to get back IO performance (WIP)

2000-07-03 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 02:24:07AM +0200, Juan J. Quintela wrote: > This patch is against test3-pre2. > It gives here good performance in the first run, and very bad > in the following ones of dbench 48. I am hitting here problems with > the locking scheme. I get a lot of contentio

Too many contention in __wait_on_super

2000-07-03 Thread Juan J. Quintela
Hi I have been changing the write of buffers in the IO layer, and I have found that the system gets a lot of contention in __wait_on_super(). I am using test3-pre1 + kdb patch. I see also the stalls/vmstat strange output without the kdb patch. I use it to be able to see the back-traces. Y

Re: [Charon-dev] Re: VFS not completely factored, and more

2000-07-03 Thread Alexander Viro
[reformatted] On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Michael W Zappe wrote: [snip] > filesystem, CXFS. (originally named Charon, but we discovered two > companies warring over the trademark, and didn't want to touch that with > a 40 foot pole... ;-) Heh. XFS folks mentioned clustered variant of their puppy. Yu