Re: (reiserfs) Re: Are you all aware that there was a slight drop in performance in going from pre3 to pre5?

From: Chris Mason (mason@suse.com)
Date: Tue Apr 18 2000 - 09:23:38 EST


On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
> > Care to describe what you are doing/planning, is this the knfsd work in
> > progress?
>
> Sorry. Slightly more fundamental stuff and it interacts with knfsd
> patches. What happens right now is the switch to new architecture for
> mount-related stuff and lookups. It's almost VFS-only, with some
> exceptions; knfsd being one of them. knfsd stuff will go as soon as that
> crap will be past the critical phase - table of exports and first steps of
> fhandle to dentry conversion are seriously affected by mount stuff and as
> soon as that will be in we will be able to get fhandle_to_dentry() into
> the tree.
> ObReiserfs: what about readdir() vs. rebalancing and friends?
>

I think you are asking about our code that detects when the tree has been
balanced underneath us, and starts the search over, right?

3.6.4 is a bit cleaner than the code you read, but we haven't added the
tree locking yet. It is in the list, which we are still prioritizing ;-)

-chris

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