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* [PATCH] Speedup FAT filesystem directory readsKarsten Wiese2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> This speeds up directory reads for large FAT partitions, if the buffercache has to be filled from the drive. Following values were taken from: $ time find path_to_freshly_mounted_fat > /dev/null on an otherwise idle system. FAT with 16KB Clusters on IDE attached drive: Factor 2 FAT with 32KB Clusters on USB2 attached drive: Factor 10 (!) Its less than 1/10 slower, if the buffercache is uptodate. The patch introduces the new function fat_dir_readahead(). fat_dir_readahead() calls sb_breadahead() to readahead a whole cluster, if the requested sector is the first one in a cluster. It is usefull to do this, because on FAT directories occupy whole clusters, with the exception of FAT12/FAT16 root dirs. Readahead is only done, if the cluster's first sector is not uptodate to avoid overhead, when the buffer cache is already uptodate. Note that under memory pressure, the maximal byte count wasted (read: has to be red from disk twice) is 1 cluster's size. Thats 64KB. fat_dir_readahead() is called from fat__get_entry(). There is also an unrelated cleanup at one spot: if (bh) brelse(bh); is replaced with: brelse(bh); brelse() can handle NULL pointer arguments by itself. Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <annabellesgarden@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fatfs sectioning fixAndrew Morton2005-07-01
| | | | | | | | | Fixup for the recent slab leak fix Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fat: fix slab cache leakPekka J Enberg2005-06-30
| | | | | | | | | This patch plugs a slab cache leak in fat module initialization. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-16
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!