Re: [PATCH] invalidate buffers on blkdev_put

[Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>]

On Sep 26, 2001  23:42 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> I wrote a quick benchmark program + script (appended at bottom of this 
> mail) and did 50 million iterations of either the do/while function or the 
> ffs() equivalent (including the BUG() check for power of 2) and it turns 
> out that on all CPUs tested (Pentium 133S, Pentium III 800, Alpha EV56 
> 533(or so), Athlon 1.33GHz 266FSB) the do/while loop is marginally faster 
> for sizes of 256 and 512 (except P3/800 where the ffs is faster even for 
> these smaller sizes) but is increasingly slower for increasing sizes. For 
> large sizes the do/while loop becomes significantly slower than the ffs() 
> approach, which of course is irrelevant at the moment with the block size 
> limitation...

How does this comapre with:

switch(blocksize) {
case  512: bits =  9; break;
case 1024: bits = 10; break;
case 2048: bits = 11; break;
case 4096: bits = 12; break;
case 8192: bits = 13; break;
default: BUG();
}

Cheers, Andreas
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