Re: First benchmarks of the ext4 file system

From: Linux Portal
Date: Mon Oct 23 2006 - 11:32:40 EST


On 10/23/06, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:57:36AM +0200, Linux Portal wrote:
> ext4 is 20 percent faster writer than ext3 or reiser4, probably thanks
> to extents and delayed allocation. On other tests it is either
> slightly faster or slightly slower. reiser4 comes as a nice surprise,
> winning few benchmarks. Both are very stable, no errors during
> testing.

As Andrew has already pointed out, we don't have delayed allocation
merged in into the -mm tree yet.

OK.

If you have the
time/energy/interest, a very useful thing that would very much help
the filesystem developers of all filesystems to do would be to
automated your tesitng enough that you can do these tests on a
frequent basis, both to track regressions caused by changes in other
parts of the kernel, as well we to see what happens as various bits of
functionality get added to the filesystem. This of course can become
an arbitrarily a huge amount of work, as you add more filesystems and
benchmarks, but it's the sort of thing which is incredibly useful
especially if the hardware is held constant across a large number of
filesystems, workloads/benchmarks, and kernel versions.


I agree completely. That was my original idea, to prepare some setup for
thorough testing, but I soon discovered that would really be a huge project,
because of so many parameters involved.

So, at this time, I just satisfied my curiosity ;) with few simple tests of the
early version of ext4. We'll see what the future brings (how much free
time, in the first place ;)).

Best regards,
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