On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 05:07:23PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Can you try with the new barrier implementation in the > > [PATCH, RFC] relaxed barriers > > by making cache flushes just that and not complicated drain barrier > it should speed this case up a lot. Indeed it does! The barrier count increases to about 21000, but I also see much higher throughput, about 830 transactions per second (versus 12000 and 760 respectively before Tejun's patch). --D -- 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