linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v1 5/10] ext4: Add DX_HASH

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Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:35:31 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>
Cc:	adilger@...ger.ca, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 5/10] ext4: Add DX_HASH_SIPHASH24 support

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:08:28PM -0400, George Spelvin wrote:
> > Still, it would probably simpler to not try to assign
> > DX_HASH_SIPHASH24 to be 6, and to leave better comments about how the
> > hash values are used.
> 
> Is that "not try" supposed to be in there?

Sorry, typo.  Yes, it would be better to assign DX_HASH_SIPHASH24 to
be 6, and not to assign the code points 3, 4, and 5 just to be safe.

> BTW, initial benchmarking isn't showing much.  I created a 4 GB file
> syste, on a RAM disk with -i 1024, and tried the following:

> DEV=/tmp/FS
> MNT=/mnt

(I assume you're using tmpfs.)  There would be less overhead if you
actually used a real ramdisk, i.e., /dev/ram0, which might reduce some
of the variance and increase the percentage of the difference, but
yeah, it's not that surprising that we're not seeing much difference.

      	       	    	       	    	  - Ted
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