Re: Uncached stat performace [ Was: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. ]

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:11:51PM +0200, Ragnar Kj?rstad wrote:

> It does, so why isn't there a way to do this without the disgusting
> hack? (Your words, not mine :) )

inode sorting probably a good guess for a number of filesystems, you
can map the blocks used to do better still (somewhat fs specific)

you can do better still if you multiple stats in parallel (up to a
point) and let the elevator sort things out

> I bet it would make a significant difference from things like "ls -l" in
> large uncached directories and imap-servers with maildir?

sort + concurrent stats would help here i think

i'm not sure i like the idea of ls using lots of threads though :)
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