From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Austin S Hemmelgarn Subject: Re: xfs: does mkfs.xfs require fancy switches to get decent performance? (was Tux3 Report: How fast can we fsync?) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:20:02 -0400 Message-ID: <55412EE2.30103@gmail.com> References: <8f886f13-6550-4322-95be-93244ae61045@phunq.net> <1430274071.3363.4.camel@gmail.com> <1906f271-aa23-404b-9776-a4e2bce0c6aa@phunq.net> <1430289213.3693.3.camel@gmail.com> <1430325763.19371.41.camel@gmail.com> <1430334326.7360.25.camel@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms030902030102050109070806" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, tux3@tux3.org, Theodore Ts'o , OGAWA Hirofumi To: Mike Galbraith , Daniel Phillips Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1430334326.7360.25.camel@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms030902030102050109070806 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2015-04-29 15:05, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Here's something that _might_ interest xfs folks. > > cd git (source repository of git itself) > make clean > echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > time make -j8 test > > ext4 2m20.721s > xfs 6m41.887s <-- ick > btrfs 1m32.038s > tux3 1m30.262s > > Testing by Aunt Tilly: mkfs, no fancy switches, mount the thing, test. > > Are defaults for mkfs.xfs such that nobody sane uses them, or does xfs > really hate whatever git selftests are doing this much? > > -Mike > I've been using the defaults for it and have been perfectly happy,=20 although I do use a few non-default mount options (like noatime and=20 noquota). It may just be a factor of what exactly the tests are doing.=20 Based on my experience, xfs _is_ better performance wise with a few=20 large files instead of a lot of small ones when used with the default=20 mkfs options. 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