On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It's going to make big "git add" calls *much* slower, so I'm not very > happy about it (especially since we don't actually care that deeply about > the files really being there until much later, so doing something > asynchronous would be perfectly acceptable), but for you this is > definitely worth-while. For me, on the whole kernel, on a pretty good system: - before: [torvalds@woody test-it-out]$ time git add . real 0m7.986s user 0m6.404s sys 0m1.456s - after: [torvalds@woody test-it-out]$ time ~/git/git-add . real 0m52.693s user 0m7.416s sys 0m2.516s so it's definitely quite noticeable in that simplistic form. A more interesting patch would use aio_fsync(), and then just wait for them at the end with aio_return(). Not that I love AIO, but this is definitely a case where it would make sense to do (of course, systems without AIO support would then fall back to regular fsync()). I will have to think about this. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
