Re: [BK][PATCH] Reiser4, will double Linux FS performance, pleaseapply

[Andrew Morton]

Hans Reiser wrote:
> 
> Green and Zam and Umka, on Monday please start work on seriously
> analyzing how the block allocation differs between the new and the old
> kernel, now that you can finally reproduce the benchmark on the old kernel.

I just sent the Orlov allocator patch to Linus.  It will double or
triple ext2 performance in that test, so please make sure you compare
against the latest.  There's a copy at
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.45/shpte-stuff/broken-out/orlov-allocator.patch

We can expect similar gains for ext3, when that's done.

(The 2x-3x is on an 8meg filesystem.  Larger filesystems should
gain more)