On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:14:51AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 09:23:59PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > >> This adds a per inode meta-block prealloc space from which > >> meta-data block requests are served. This help in making > >> sure meta-data block are closer. This is needed to speedup > >> unlink of the file. Any new prealloc space is allocated near > >> the goal block specified. The goal block is the last block > >> allocated for the file. So we don't keep the data-block and > >> meta-data block far apart. > >> > > > > The result can be found at > > > > http://www.radian.org/~kvaneesh/ext4/meta-group/ > > Out of curiosity, do you have graphs similar to > http://www.radian.org/~kvaneesh/ext4/meta-group/ext4-noextents-metagroup.png > > before and after your change? > No, But I can do that. -aneesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
