Re: Confusion about where to go in Hurd

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Hi,

olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net, le Wed 01 Aug 2007 18:30:20 +0200, a écrit :
> > The main reason parts of Hurd are slow and such is that code in
> > the translators (such as the pager code in ext2fs) haven't been
> > optimized.
> 
> Well, that is only partially true: Nobody has ever really profiled it;
> but my guess is that the slowness of disk I/O is indeed caused by lack
> of optimisation in some Hurd components.

There is indeed no e.g. staircase block scheduler on the path from
ext2fs to Mach drivers...

Samuel