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DateFri, 10 Nov 2006 22:52:57 -0800
FromAndrew Morton <>
SubjectRe: XFS filesystem performance drop in kernels 2.6.16+
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:16:27 +0300
"Igor A. Valcov" <viaprog@gmail.com> wrote:

> Below is a simplified version of the test program,

Boy, I hope not.  The results of this test program are of very little interest.

>     for (i = 0; i < 262144; i++) {
>         /* Write data to a big file */
>         write (nFiles [0], buf, __BYTES);
> 
>         /* Write data to small files */
>         for (f = 1; f < __FILES; f++)
>             write (nFiles [f], &f, sizeof (f));
>     }

This sits in a loop doing write(fd, buf, 4).  This is wildly inefficient -
you'd get a 10x throughput benefit and maybe 100x reduction in CPU cost
simply by switching to fwrite().

I suspect something went wrong here.
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