linux-ext4 - Re: Large File Deletion Comparison (ext3, ext4, XFS)

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Message-ID: <4632462E.7090109@clusterfs.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:51:26 +0400
From:	Alex Tomas <alex@...sterfs.com>
To:	Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@...l.net>
CC:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Large File Deletion Comparison (ext3, ext4, XFS)

Valerie Clement wrote:
> As asked by Alex, I included in the test results the file fragmentation 
> level and the number of I/Os done during the file deletion.
> 
> Here are the results obtained with a not very fragmented 100-GB file:
> 
>                  |     ext3       ext4 + extents      xfs
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>  nb of fragments |     796             798             15
>  elapsed time    |  2m0.306s        0m11.127s       0m0.553s
>                  |
>  blks read       |  206600            6416            352
>  blks written    |   13592           13064            104
> ------------------------------------------------------------


hmm. if I did math right, then, in theory, 100GB file could be
placed using ~850 extents: 100 * 1024 / 120, where 120 is amount
of data one can allocate in regular group. 850 extents would
require 3 leaf blocks (340 extents/block) + 1 index block. we'd
need to read these 4 blocks + all 850 involved bitmaps + some
blocks of group descriptors. so, probably we need to tune balloc.
then we'd improve remove time by factor six (6400 blocks to read
vs. ~900-1000 blocks to read) ?

thanks, Alex


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