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On January 9, 2002 10:26 am, Andrew Morton wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > By the way, did you check for latency in directory operations? > > Yes. They can be very bad for really large directories. Scheduling > on the found-in-cache case in bread() kills that one easily for most > local filesystems. There may still be a problem in ext2. A indexed directory won't have that problem - I'll get to finishing off the htree patch pretty soon[1]. In any event, the analogous technique will work: a schedule point in ext2_bread. [1] Wli's hash work is happening at a convenient time. -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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