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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>2002-06-02 03:22:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@home.transmeta.com>2002-06-02 03:22:29 -0700
commit7e7382fd4079d948c2cd3799e39a9e963da35baf (patch)
tree2374dfe047d40dcac1c4f2526149f0b86fdc21f2 /include/linux
parent02eaba7ffd145ef1389f4adc420f94af20ab3068 (diff)
[PATCH] speed up writes
Speeds up generic_file_write() by not calling mark_inode_dirty() when the mtime and ctime didn't change. There may be concerns over the fact that this restricts mtime and ctime updates to one-second resolution. But the interface doesn't support that anyway - all the filesystem knows is that its dirty_inode() superop was called. It doesn't know why. So filesystems which support high-resolution timestamps already need to make their own arrangements. We need an update_mtime i_op to support those properly. time to write a one megabyte file one-byte-at-a-time: Before: ext3: 24.8 seconds ext2: 4.9 seconds reiserfs: 17.0 seconds After: ext3: 22.5 seconds ext2: 4.8 seconds reiserfs: 11.6 seconds Not much improvement because we're also calling expensive mark_inode_dirty() functions when i_size is expanded. So compare the overwrite case: time dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1 count=1M conv=notrunc ext3 before: 20.0 seconds ext3 after: 9.7 seconds
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