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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2008-10-10 05:53:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2008-10-10 05:53:47 +0200 |
| commit | 240799cdf22bd789ea6852653c3b879d35ad0a6c (patch) | |
| tree | e696b60cc103f23838b5c14d8d397f692abffbc3 /fs/fcntl.c | |
| parent | ext4: Improve the documentation for ext4's /proc tunables (diff) | |
| download | linux-240799cdf22bd789ea6852653c3b879d35ad0a6c.tar.xz linux-240799cdf22bd789ea6852653c3b879d35ad0a6c.zip | |
ext4: Use readahead when reading an inode from the inode table
With modern hard drives, reading 64k takes roughly the same time as
reading a 4k block. So request readahead for adjacent inode table
blocks to reduce the time it takes when iterating over directories
(especially when doing this in htree sort order) in a cold cache case.
With this patch, the time it takes to run "git status" on a kernel
tree after flushing the caches via "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"
is reduced by 21%.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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