linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/2] [PATCH] ext4: Add inode to the orphan list during block allocation failure

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Date:	Fri, 5 Jun 2009 03:24:17 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [PATCH] ext4: Add inode to the orphan list during
	block allocation failure

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:22:34AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> I've tried applying these two patches to the ext4 patch queue.  On a
> metadata-heavy workload (specifically, fsx), it causes a 5%
> degradation in the wall clock run-time of the fsx run-time.

I just did some more timing tests, and it looks like I can't confirm
it.  The test times are noisy enough I need to run some more under very
controlled circumsntances.  So ignore this for now, it might not be a
problem after all.

						- Ted
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