Hi Jan, On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:15:46AM +0200, Jan Weitzel wrote: > Writing big files takes longer and longer because of the chunk list > By storing a pointer of the recent used chunk in the inode, access times are > improved. > Testet on with tftp 10M: > OMAP4 chunk size 4096: 12244ms 8192: 4239ms > patched 2647ms 2785ms > i.MX35 chunk size 8192: 7225ms > patched 2691ms > The numbers look good and the code looks sane. We can give it a try. Two nitpicks below. > No impact on much smaller files seen > > Signed-off-by: Jan Weitzel <j.weitzel@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/ramfs.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- > 1 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/ramfs.c b/fs/ramfs.c > index 83ab6df..5c7410b 100644 > --- a/fs/ramfs.c > +++ b/fs/ramfs.c > @@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ struct ramfs_inode { > > ulong size; > struct ramfs_chunk *data; > + Trailing whitespace here. > + /* Points to recently used chunk */ > + int recent_chunk; > + struct ramfs_chunk *recent_chunkp; > }; > > struct ramfs_priv { > @@ -297,6 +301,34 @@ static int ramfs_close(struct device_d *dev, FILE *f) > return 0; > } > > +static struct ramfs_chunk *ramfs_find_chunk(struct ramfs_inode *node, int chunk) > +{ > + struct ramfs_chunk *data; > + int left = chunk; > + > + if (chunk == 0) > + return node->data; > + > + if (node->recent_chunk == chunk) > + return node->recent_chunkp; > + > + if (node->recent_chunk < chunk && node->recent_chunk != 0) { > + /* Start at last known chunk */ > + data = node->recent_chunkp; > + left -= node->recent_chunk; > + } else > + /* Start at first chunk */ > + data = node->data; if you have brackets in the if path you should add them in the else path aswell. > } > + if (node->recent_chunk > newchunks) Also trailing whitespace Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox