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Addressing Large Sequential Read Performance
In Linux's Ext2 Filesystem
Kevin
O'Connor and Greg Tracy
koconnor@cs.wisc.edu,
gtracy@cs.wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin, Madison
1210 Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706
Abstract:
| As the Linux operating system
increases in popularity, its use in broadband applications such as
streaming media will also increase. The performance of these applications
is bounded in part by the throughput of large sequential
reads. The authors analyze the current performance of
the ext2 file system, find its read ahead
mechanism to be inadequate, and take steps to
improve it. This paper describes these
improvements and presents performance
measurements that demonstrate the gains made in
large sequential reads. |
Submitted to SOS-Please - Symposium
on Operating Systems, Please
Chair: Remzi
Arpaci-Dusseau
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