Re: [PATCH 0/3] i_ino uniqueness: alternate approach -- hash theinodes

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Wed Jan 24 2007 - 11:59:09 EST


Eric Dumazet wrote:
> The problem is you wont see the overhead of insert/delete the inode in a
> global tree, since you keep hot caches.
>
> To have a better estimate of the overhead, I suggest you try to use more
> active pipes like :
>

Eric, thanks for the new program. With that, the situation looks slightly
worse:

hashing patch (pipebench):
sys 1m15.329s
sys 1m16.249s
sys 1m17.169s

unpatched (pipebench):
sys 1m9.836s
sys 1m12.541s
sys 1m14.153s

Which works out to 1.05642174294555027017. So ~5-6%.

-- Jeff

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