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Re: TAKE - write performance improvement

To: Ananth Ananthanarayanan <ananth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: TAKE - write performance improvement
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:56:44 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Message from Ananth Ananthanarayanan <ananth@waco.engr.sgi.com> of "Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:16:06 PDT." <200008282316.QAA27684@waco.engr.sgi.com>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
I am backing out this change, it breaks doio, and probably anything else
which fills holes in files. I think we had a similar test condition in
this code path before, and it was removed to fix corruption. There has
got to be another variant of this which we can use.

Steve

> With this change streaming writes perform almost
> at the speed of streaming read, as measured
> with lmdd and bonnie even when 1K & 2K chunks
> are used for write.
> 
> Date:  Mon Aug 28 16:12:45 PDT 2000
> Workarea:  waco.engr.sgi.com:/build1/ananth/slinx-xfs-new
> 
> The following file(s) were checked into:
>   bonnie.engr.sgi.com:/isms/slinx/2.4.0-test1-xfs
> 
> 
> Modid:  2.4.0-test1-xfs:slinx:73209a
> linux/fs/pagebuf/page_buf_io.c - 1.24
>       - Fix a long-standing problem where write performance
>         was sub-standard when < 4K chunk-sizes were used.
> 



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