Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:07:35 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: kill-the-BKL |
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* Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > For example, if you have /home and / on separate reiser3 > > filesystems, you could see as much as a 200% jump in performance > > straight away on certain workloads, on a dual-core box. > > > > That big BKL overhead is a real reiser3 scalability problem - > > especially on reiser3 using servers which are likely to have > > several filesystems on the same box. > > Yes - I'm certainly interested in that. > > That said, we have a box with 83 reiserfs partitions on it, and > which is constrained by IO (main servers really don't need much > CPU). Performance is pretty good even now. > > So - I'm interested in this patch series, but not at the expense > of making reiserfs any less stable. Our customers, funnily > enough, like it when our service is stable!
Definitely so :-)
Ingo
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