Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 11:52:30 +0100
From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, git@vger.kernel.org,
       nigel@nigel.suspend2.net, "J.H." <warthog9@kernel.org>,
       Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       webmaster@kernel.org
Subject: Re: How git affects kernel.org performance
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On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:28:53AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Ok. Do you too think it might help (or even solve) the problem on
kernel.org ?

Willy

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