Re: performance of filesystem xattrs with Samba4

From: Andreas Dilger
Date: Tue Nov 23 2004 - 17:39:04 EST


On Nov 23, 2004 20:37 +1100, tridge@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Would anyone care to hazard a guess as to what aspect of -mm2 is
> > > gaining us 10% in overall Samba4 performance?
> >
> > Is it reproducible with your tricked-up dbench?
> >
> > If so, please send me a machine description and the relevant command line
> > and I'll do a bsearch.
>
> I've now confirmed that the new dbench does indeed show a significant
> improvement in 2.6.10-rc2-mm2 as compared to 2.6.10-rc2. Interestingly,
> the improvement seems to be only in ext3, which confused me for a while.

Might it be the reservation patches?

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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