From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 11 14:43: 9 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.14.173.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078F937B403 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:43:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 17705 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Jul 2001 21:43:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Jul 2001 21:43:01 -0000 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:43:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Ian Dowse Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf NOTES src/sys/conf files options src/sys/ufs/ufs dirhash.h ufs_dirhash.c inode.h ufs_inode.c ufs_lookup.c In-Reply-To: <200107112116.aa67322@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Message-ID: <20010711163937.R2662-100000@achilles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Ian Dowse wrote: > In message , Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > >Ian Dowse writes: > >> Bring in dirhash, a simple hash-based lookup optimisation for large > > > >Are you going to MFC this in a while? > > Yeah, I have a releng_4 version that I've been running without any > problems, but I'll probably wait at least a week or two for any > bugs or suggestions to show up. There are almost certainly still > some access patterns where dirhash is a pessimisation over the > non-dirhash case - I think the worst of these (sequential access, > large working set) have mostly been addressed, but some filesystem > benchmarks may well come out worse with dirhash switched on. > > I'd be very interested in any such results, or any suggestions for > improvements. > > Ian I did a few runs with "postmark" from the ports tree, and found that performance was mostly unchanged. I'm not sure if it's a good benchmark, but investigating why it shows no overall performance increase would probably be worthwhile for you. In any case, I think that you should do the MFC ASAP. Since it's an optional component, you don't have to worry about breaking anything, and you'll need the larger -stable audience to get a good variety of testing done. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message