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Re: Allocating buffers in ext2fs
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Neal H Walfield |
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Re: Allocating buffers in ext2fs |
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Thu, 22 Nov 2001 20:32:34 +0100 |
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> That looks promising. Would you like to do some more empirical tests for
> tuning? Make the allocation page-cluster size a global variable, and then
> use gdb to adjust its value in between test runs. If you'd like to do
> that, I'd be happy to put that form of your changes in right away while you
> (and/or others) experiment to find the optimal tuning.
Sure. Do you have a suggestions on how to gather statistics,
i.e. other than compiling. Additionally, was changing the spinlock to
a mutex the right thing to do?