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SubjectRe: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)
On Tue, 18 September 2007 11:00:40 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
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> We still lack data on what sort of workloads really benefit from large
> blocks

Compressing filesystems like jffs2 and logfs gain better compression
ratio with larger blocks. Going from 4KiB to 64KiB gave somewhere
around 10% benefit iirc. Testdata was a 128MiB qemu root filesystem.

Granted, the same could be achieved by adding some extra code and a few
bounce buffers to the filesystem. How suck a hack would perform I'd
prefer not to find out, though. :)

Jörn

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