linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/2] HACK: ext3: mount fast even when recovering

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:36:49 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...ia.com>, sct@...hat.com,
	adilger@....com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	artem.bityutskiy@...ia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] HACK: ext3: mount fast even when recovering

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 04:46:37PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
> (whoa, can barriers make something faster?  who woulda thunk it)

I sent this reply in response to the first Adrian's first e-mail, that
had bogus e-mail addresses for akpm and sct, so resending it here:

Have you actually benchmarked these patches, ideally with a fixed
filesystem image so the two runs are done requiring exactly the same
number of blocks to recover?  We implement ordered I/O in terms of
doing a flush, so it would be surprising to see that a significant
difference in times.  Also, it would be useful to do a blktrace before
and after your patches, again with a fixed filesystem image so the
experiment can be carefully controlled.

Regards,

                                                - Ted
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