Subject: Re: RFC: MSDOS write performance fixup (upto 6x)
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/25/2007 21:21:13
In article <20071025224446.3f98fef3.juan@xtrarom.org>,
Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org> wrote:
>On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:38:28 +0200
>Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@NetBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear folks,
>>
>> it came to my attention that the buffer cache has been tweaked by yamt
>> (AFAIR) to better anticipate on write actions. FFS has been taken care of i
>> noticed but msdosfs wasn't.
>>
>> Attached are the patches i made and tested for msdosfs and a simple
>> bonnie++ testrun though it test size should have been much higher on this
>> machine...
>>
>> anyway, please review this patch and look at the attached bonnie output. I
>> did check if there were corruptions, but i couldn't find any.
>
>Wow, the results are impressive. Good work!
We should really port the rest of the msdosfs fixes from FreeBSD.
christos