Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751974AbbD3PYB (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:24:01 -0400 Received: from mail.phunq.net ([184.71.0.62]:41005 "EHLO starbase.phunq.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750804AbbD3PX6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:23:58 -0400 Message-ID: <5542491F.2000404@phunq.net> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 08:24:15 -0700 From: Daniel Phillips User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Galbraith CC: Dave Chinner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, tux3@tux3.org, "Theodore Ts'o" , OGAWA Hirofumi Subject: Re: xfs: does mkfs.xfs require fancy switches to get decent performance? (was Tux3 Report: How fast can we fsync?) References: <8f886f13-6550-4322-95be-93244ae61045@phunq.net> <1430274071.3363.4.camel@gmail.com> <1906f271-aa23-404b-9776-a4e2bce0c6aa@phunq.net> <1430289213.3693.3.camel@gmail.com> <1430325763.19371.41.camel@gmail.com> <1430334326.7360.25.camel@gmail.com> <20150430002008.GY15810@dastard> <1430395641.3180.94.camel@gmail.com> <1430401693.3180.131.camel@gmail.com> <55423732.2070509@phunq.net> <1430404405.3180.152.camel@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1430404405.3180.152.camel@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 976 Lines: 23 On 04/30/2015 07:33 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Well ok, let's forget bad blood, straw men... and answering my question > too I suppose. Not having any sexy IO gizmos in my little desktop box, > I don't care deeply which stomps the other flat on beastly boxen. I'm with you, especially the forget bad blood part. I did my time in big storage and I will no doubt do it again, but right now, what I care about is bringing truth and beauty to small storage, which includes that spinning rust of yours and also the cheap SSD you are about to run out and buy. I hope you caught the bit about how Tux3 is doing really well running in tmpfs? According to my calculations, that means good things for SSD performance. Regards, Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/