From: Pekka J Enberg Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] ext3: remove inode constructor Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 11:58:45 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: References: <20070504130241.c436eb43.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sct@redhat.com, adilger@clusterfs.com, clameter@sgi.com To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:52088 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423122AbXEEI6r (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 May 2007 04:58:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070504130241.c436eb43.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 4 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > I got 100% rejects against this because Christoph has already had > his paws all over the slab constructor code everywhere. > > Was going to fix it up but then decided that we ought to make changes > like this to ext4 as well. Ideally beforehand, but simultaneously is > OK as long as it's simple enough. I'll send you proper patches for them (and will convert other filesystems too). On Fri, 4 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > btw, for a benchmark I'd suggest just a silly create-10000-files > tight loop rather than something more complex like postmark. Do you want me to redo the benchmarks or are you happy enough with the postmark numbers? Pekka