Re: Reiser vs EXT3

[David C. Hansen]

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 12:49, David Lang wrote:
> note that breaking up this locking bottleneckhas been done in the 2.5
> kernel series so when 2.6 is released this should be much less significant
> (Q2 2003 is the current thought, but don't count on it until it's out)

Actually, ext3 has been immune from most of the lock breakups in 2.5. 
ext2 used to have a lot of problems with BKL contention resulting from 
ext2_get_block() and some other assorted functions.  Al Viro cleaned
these up in early 2.5, but ext3 never got the cleanup.  It still scales
horribly, even 2.5.45.  

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Dave Hansen
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