This patchset introduce extent buffer cache to btrfs. The basic idea is to reduce the search time and the contentions of the extent buffer lock by re-using the last search result. I ran stress.sh, xfstests and some other tools to test it, all of them worked well. As a performance improvement patchset, of course we did performance test. Because this patchset is to improve the b+ tree search, in other words, it improves the performance of the metadata operations, we use file creation test to measure it. So we ran 10 tasks, and all of them created 100000 files in their own directories at the same time. As the result, we found this patchset makes btrfs ~20% faster(98s -> 77s). we can pull this patchset from the URL git://github.com/miaoxie/linux-btrfs.git extent-buffer-cache Thanks Miao --- Miao Xie (4): Btrfs: restructure btrfs_search_slot() Btrfs: introduce extent buffer cache for each i-node Btrfs: introduce extent buffer cache for delayed inode Btrfs: introduce extent buffer cache for delayed reference fs/btrfs/acl.c | 1 - fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h | 6 +- fs/btrfs/compression.c | 1 - fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 598 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- fs/btrfs/ctree.h | 32 +++- fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c | 23 ++ fs/btrfs/dir-item.c | 2 + fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/export.c | 1 - fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 6 + fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 9 +- fs/btrfs/extent_io.h | 38 +++ fs/btrfs/file-item.c | 4 +- fs/btrfs/file.c | 5 +- fs/btrfs/inode-item.c | 10 +- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 36 +++- fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 1 - fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c | 1 - fs/btrfs/relocation.c | 1 - fs/btrfs/send.c | 1 - fs/btrfs/super.c | 1 - fs/btrfs/transaction.c | 11 + fs/btrfs/transaction.h | 4 +- fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 6 +- fs/btrfs/xattr.c | 2 +- 25 files changed, 651 insertions(+), 151 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html