linux-kernel - Re: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems?

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Message-ID: <47BB594E.1050103@rtr.ca>
Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:33:50 -0500
From:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
To:	Paulo Marques <pmarques@...popie.com>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@...g.org>,
	LKML <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems?

Paulo Marques wrote:
> Mark Lord wrote:
>> Theodore Tso wrote:
>> ..
>>> The following ld_preload can help in some cases.  Mutt has this hack
>>> encoded in for maildir directories, which helps.
>> ..
>>
>> Oddly enough, that same spd_readdir() preload craps out here too
>> when used with "rm -r" on largish directories.
> 
>  From looking at the code, I think I've found at least one bug in opendir:
> ...
>>             dnew = realloc(dirstruct->dp,                        
>> dirstruct->max * sizeof(struct dir_s));
> ...
> 
> Shouldn't this be: "...*sizeof(struct dirent_s));"?
..

Yeah, that's one bug.
Another is that ->fd is frequently left uninitialized, yet later used.

Fixing those didn't change the null pointer deaths, though.


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