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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1112190949230.30656@dhcp-27-109.brq.redhat.com> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:50:21 +0100 (CET) From: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com> To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> cc: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] extent-based bitmaps for e2fsprogs On Sun, 18 Dec 2011, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I spent some time playing with Lukas Czerner's rbtree patches. Here is > a patch set which is based on the latest e2fsprogs sources, and which > doesn't break any library ABI's or API's. I also threw in regression > tester for bitmaps, and fixed a bug in rb_unmark_bmap() that was found > by the regression tests. > > My tests on a number of file systems that I had easy access to seems to > indicate that on pretty much all file systems, using the rbtree based > implementation is a huge win over the bitarray. (With memory required > after patches being as low as 25% of the memory needed beforehand, > although I believe 40-50% of the memory required in previous releases is > more realistic.) The one exception is if there are a huge number of > directories, which is the reason for the AUTODIR pseudo backend. > > Comments, please! Hi Ted, it looks great, I am really happy you've resurrected my old patches, I'll give it a try and take a look at patches. Thanks! -Lukas > > - Ted > > Lukas Czerner (3): > libext2fs: add rbtree library > libext2fs: add a bitmap implementation using rbtree's > libext2fs: add bitmap statistics > > Theodore Ts'o (7): > libext2fs: add default_bitmap_type to the ext2_filsys structure > libext2fs: add tests for the bitmap functions > libext2fs: add pseudo bitmap backend type EXT2FS_BMAP64_AUTODIR > e2fsck: fix pass5 bug when using two different bitmap backends > libext2fs: use the rbtree bitmap by default when initializing a file > system > e2fsck: use different bitmap types as appropriate > libext2fs: adjust the description when copying a bitmap > > e2fsck/e2fsck.h | 20 + > e2fsck/pass1.c | 62 ++-- > e2fsck/pass1b.c | 6 +- > e2fsck/pass2.c | 7 +- > e2fsck/pass3.c | 7 +- > e2fsck/pass5.c | 4 +- > e2fsck/unix.c | 4 + > e2fsck/util.c | 61 +++ > lib/ext2fs/Makefile.in | 38 ++- > lib/ext2fs/bitmaps.c | 14 +- > lib/ext2fs/blkmap64_ba.c | 8 + > lib/ext2fs/blkmap64_rb.c | 824 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > lib/ext2fs/bmap64.h | 33 ++ > lib/ext2fs/ext2fs.h | 15 +- > lib/ext2fs/ext2fsP.h | 2 - > lib/ext2fs/gen_bitmap64.c | 158 ++++++++- > lib/ext2fs/icount.c | 4 +- > lib/ext2fs/initialize.c | 1 + > lib/ext2fs/rbtree.c | 451 ++++++++++++++++++++++ > lib/ext2fs/rbtree.h | 180 +++++++++ > lib/ext2fs/tst_bitmaps.c | 577 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > lib/ext2fs/tst_bitmaps_cmd.ct | 39 ++ > lib/ext2fs/tst_bitmaps_cmds | 46 +++ > lib/ext2fs/tst_bitmaps_exp | 92 +++++ > 24 files changed, 2600 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 lib/ext2fs/blkmap64_rb.c > create mode 100644 lib/ext2fs/rbtree.c > create mode 100644 lib/ext2fs/rbtree.h > create mode 100644 lib/ext2fs/tst_bitmaps.c > create mode 100644 lib/ext2fs/tst_bitmaps_cmd.ct > create mode 100644 lib/ext2fs/tst_bitmaps_cmds > create mode 100644 lib/ext2fs/tst_bitmaps_exp > > -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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