Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932477AbXAGK3J (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 05:29:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932481AbXAGK3J (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 05:29:09 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:60211 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932477AbXAGK3H (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 05:29:07 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 10:28:53 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Willy Tarreau Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org, nigel@nigel.suspend2.net, "J.H." , Randy Dunlap , Andrew Morton , Pavel Machek , kernel list , webmaster@kernel.org Subject: Re: How git affects kernel.org performance Message-ID: <20070107102853.GB26849@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Willy Tarreau , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org, nigel@nigel.suspend2.net, "J.H." , Randy Dunlap , Andrew Morton , Pavel Machek , kernel list , webmaster@kernel.org References: <1166297434.26330.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1166304080.13548.8.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> <459152B1.9040106@zytor.com> <1168140954.2153.1.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> <45A08269.4050504@zytor.com> <45A083F2.5000000@zytor.com> <20070107085526.GR24090@1wt.eu> <45A0B63E.2020803@zytor.com> <20070107090336.GA7741@1wt.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070107090336.GA7741@1wt.eu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 627 Lines: 13 On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:03:36AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > The problem is that I have no sufficient FS knowledge to argument why > it helps here. It was a desperate attempt to fix the problem for us > and it definitely worked well. XFS does rather efficient btree directories, and it does sophisticated readahead for directories. I suspect that's what is helping you there. - 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/