Re: reiserfs empirical study (very long)
I thought I read somewhere that XFS is working on PPC..
I take it that info was incorrect?
-Cameron
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> Anton Blanchard wrote:
> >
> > Me wrote:
> > > The big endian patches change the code to use little endian ordering
> > > for all on-disk structures. IMO this is a mistake, and certainly
> > > costs a dear performance penalty, because on big endian processors,
> > > this method requires converting endianness both ways (reading and
> > > writing) for all meta data.
> >
> > Sane architectures (sparc64, ppc) have load/store with byte swap
> > instructions and if reiserfs is using them you shouldnt see a
> > performance penalty.
> >
> > cpu_to_le* etc make use of them.
>
> It does use them, but are these functions inlines with just one
> instruction? If not, then there is a penalty. These handy
> instructions just make that penalty a little less painful.
>
> People have already mentioned enough cases here to convince me that
> they do need to be moveable. The one truly convincing case is
> wanting to have reiserfs be the root file system, but the hardware
> only allows one disk at a time. One could be a hardass and say
> yeah, just do it on a similar machine, but my coffee is kicking in
> so I don't need to be a hardass anymore today.
>
> I guess this is just another case where we suffer a small bite
> because we're different from x86. Sometime you bite the bear,
> however. Someone said that XFS is stored bigendian. Which will be
> great when it works on PowerPC/SPARC ~:^)
>
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