Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762871AbXJPAo1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:44:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757391AbXJPAoR (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:44:17 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:55059 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757276AbXJPAoQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:44:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:44:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Chris Mason cc: David Chinner , Linus Torvalds , Nathan Scott , Andrea Arcangeli , Nick Piggin , Mel Gorman , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , William Lee Irwin III , Jens Axboe , Badari Pulavarty , Maxim Levitsky , Fengguang Wu , swin wang , totty.lu@gmail.com, hugh@veritas.com, joern@lazybastard.org Subject: Re: More Large blocksize benchmarks In-Reply-To: <20071016002231.GA21378@think.oraclecorp.com> Message-ID: References: <20071016002231.GA21378@think.oraclecorp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 592 Lines: 13 On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Chris Mason wrote: > Dave reported that XFS saw much higher write throughput with large > blocksizes, but so far I'm seeing the most benefits during reads. Dave's tests were done with an early large blocksize patchset that had issues with readahead. More recent versions have the fixes by Fengguang that address the issue. - 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/