From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:35:26 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v2 0/3] git checkout optimisation - part 3 Message-ID: <7vfxi9fqup.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Kjetil Barvik writes: > Changes sine v1 > (v1 was posted with subject "The ext4 filesystem and racy git") > > > -- patch 2/3 -- > Added missing timestamp => timestamp.(u)sec update for > unpack-trees.c > > -- patch 3/3 -- > New patch which removes some 14300 lstat(2) calls, and the total is > now at 41677 calls, or 1.382 calls/unique string to lstat() for the > reference 'git checkout'-test to Linux tag v2.6.27. > > Total reduction so far for all the lstat/git checkout optimisation > patches has been 120954 - 41677 = 79277 calls. Some 14400 fstat(2) > calls is added, but those should be faster than simmilar lstat() > calls. > > (patch-series based on master) Hmm, have you noticed that the rest of the stuff are queued on 'next'? Not that it matters in this case...