[Gluster-devel] small-file performance feature sub-pages

[Vijay Bellur]

On 12/04/2014 12:44 AM, Ben England wrote:
> I've expanded specification of two proposals for improving small-file performance as new feature pages, referenced at the bottom of this list (not in priority order I hope?).  Could we possibly review these proposals at a gluster.org meeting this month?
>
> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features#Proposed_Features.2FIdeas
>

Thanks for this. Let us go through these ideas sometime next week. 
Me/Jeff do intend to setup a dedicated meeting for performance 
improvements sometime then.

> new feature pages under this page are:
>
> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/stat-xattr-cache - proposed enhancement to POSIX translator for small-file performance
> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/composite-operations - changes to reduce round trips for small-file performance
>
> Specifically, the stat-xattr-cache proposal does not require Gluster 4.0 - it could be implemented today.  These pages are referenced by Features/Planning40 page and also by the Features/Feature_Smallfile_Perf page.
>
> comments and feedback are appreciated.  There have been other related proposals from Rudra Siva concerning round-trip reduction in http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2014-November/042741.html .

+1 to implement whatever we can today in 3.7. I envision performance 
improvements across the board as being one of the release themes for 
GlusterFS 3.7.

Cheers,
Vijay