On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 03:31:22PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > <SNIP> > The objective of the series - reducing writes from reclaim - is > met with filesystem writes from reclaim reduced to 0 with reclaim > in general doing less work. ext3, ext4 and xfs all showed marked > improvements for fs_mark in this configuration. btrfs looked worse > but it's within the noise and I'd expect the patches to have little > or no impact there due it ignoring ->writepage from reclaim. > My bad, I accidentally looked at an old report for btrfs based on older patches. In the report posted with all patches applied, the performance of btrfs does look better but as the patches should make no difference, it's still in the noise. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>