git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH] write-tree performance problems

From
DMDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date
Apr 20, 2005, 18:07 UTC
Message-ID
<20050420110720.0ff887b4.davem@davemloft.net>
In-Reply-To
<Pine.LNX.4.58.0504200957030.6467@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:06:15 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

Show 6 quoted lines
> I bet your SHA1 implementation is done with hand-optimized and scheduled
> x86 MMX code or something, while my poor G5 is probably using some slow
> generic routine. As a result, it only improved by 33% for me since the
> compression was just part of the picture, but with your cheap SHA1 the
> compression costs really dominated, and so it's almost four times faster
> for you.

The openssl tree has a i586 optimized SHA1 implementation. A quick scan of the 0.9.7e tree I happen to have lying around shows there aren't optimized for other cpus in there, just i586.

Previous: Linus TorvaldsNext: David Lang
Message 43 of 54 in “write-tree performance problems”
  1. write-tree performance problemsChris Mason, Apr 19, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsApr 19, 2005
  3. Chris MasonApr 19, 2005
  4. Linus TorvaldsApr 19, 2005
  5. Chris MasonApr 19, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsApr 19, 2005
  7. Chris MasonApr 20, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsApr 20, 2005
  9. Linus TorvaldsApr 20, 2005
  10. H. Peter AnvinApr 20, 2005
  11. WARNING! Object DB conversion (was Re: [PATCH] write-tree performance problems)Linus Torvalds, Apr 20, 2005
  12. Ingo MolnarApr 20, 2005
  13. Jon SeymourApr 20, 2005
  14. Martin UeckerApr 20, 2005
  15. Morten WelinderApr 20, 2005
  16. Jon SeymourApr 20, 2005
  17. C. Scott AnanianApr 20, 2005
  18. Martin UeckerApr 20, 2005
  19. C. Scott AnanianApr 20, 2005
  20. Martin UeckerApr 20, 2005
  21. Martin UeckerApr 20, 2005
  22. Blob chunking code. [First look.]C. Scott Ananian, Apr 20, 2005
  23. Blob chunking code. [Second look]C. Scott Ananian, Apr 20, 2005
  24. David WoodhouseApr 20, 2005
  25. Linus TorvaldsApr 20, 2005
  26. David WoodhouseApr 20, 2005
  27. Chris MasonApr 20, 2005
  28. C. Scott AnanianApr 20, 2005
  29. Linus TorvaldsApr 20, 2005
  30. C. Scott AnanianApr 20, 2005
  31. Linus TorvaldsApr 20, 2005
  32. Linus TorvaldsApr 20, 2005
  33. David WillmoreApr 20, 2005
  34. Linus TorvaldsApr 20, 2005
  35. Linus TorvaldsApr 20, 2005
  36. Chris MasonApr 20, 2005
  37. Linus TorvaldsApr 20, 2005
  38. Chris MasonApr 20, 2005
  39. Linus TorvaldsApr 20, 2005
  40. Chris MasonApr 20, 2005
  41. Linus TorvaldsApr 20, 2005
  42. Linus TorvaldsApr 20, 2005
  43. David S. MillerApr 20, 2005
  44. David LangApr 19, 2005
  45. Linus TorvaldsApr 19, 2005
  46. David LangApr 19, 2005
  47. Linus TorvaldsApr 19, 2005
  48. David LangApr 19, 2005
  49. Linus TorvaldsApr 19, 2005
  50. Christopher LiApr 19, 2005
  51. Olivier GalibertApr 19, 2005
  52. C. Scott AnanianApr 19, 2005
  53. Linus TorvaldsApr 20, 2005
  54. C. Scott AnanianApr 20, 2005

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.