Re: Linux filesystem performance and checkpoint sorting

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> -Switching from ext3 to xfs gave over a 3X speedup on the smaller test set:
>  from the 600-700 TPS range to around 2200 TPS.  TPS rate on the larger data
> set actually slowed down a touch on XFS, around 10%.  Still, such a huge win
> when it's better makes it easy to excuse the occasional cases where it's a
> bit slower.

Did you see that they improved XFS scalability in 2.6.37?

http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_37#head-dfa29df2b21f5a72fb17f041a7356deeea3d159e

Looks like there's more XFS improvements in store for 2.6.38.