On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 02:10:10PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > I tried just the writeback_index patch and got only 4 fragmented files > on ext4 after a compilebench run. Then I tried again and got 1200. > Seems there is something timing dependent in here ;) > Yeah, the patch Aneesh sent to change where we added the inode to the dirty list was false lead. The right fix is in the ext4 patch queue now. I think we have the problem licked and a quick test showed it increased the compilebench MB/s by a very tiny amount (enough so that I wasnt sure whether or not it was measurement error), but it does avoid the needly fragmentation. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
