Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:28:10 -0500 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] 7.52 second kernel compile |
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On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:04:18AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Theodore Tso wrote: > > >On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:34:34PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > >>>And this *without* the dcache_lock? Hmm. So you are saying there > >>>may still be room for improvement? > >>> > >>I tried the dcache lock patches but found it hard to see a difference, > >>for us the mm stuff still seems to be the bottleneck. > >> > > > >Try the patch which gets rid of the BKL in ext2_get_block() --- if you > >don't have that, let me know, I've got one kicking around that mostly > >works except I haven't validated that it does the right thing if > >quotas are enabled. > > > > Is yours different from what's in 2.5.x?
Yes it is, but it looks like Al's is better in any case. (I hadn't realized that Al's changes had gone into 2.5.recent; I've been distracted recently with a few other things.)
- Ted
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