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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance.mdwn index bb047308..b6c857b0 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance.mdwn @@ -11,21 +11,21 @@ is included in the section entitled [[!meta title="Disk I/O Performance Tuning"]] The most obvious reason for the Hurd feeling slow compared to mainstream -systems like GNU/Linux, is very slow harddisk access. +systems like GNU/Linux, is very slow hard disk access. The reason for this slowness is lack and/or bad implementation of common -optimisation techniques, like scheduling reads and writes to minimalize head +optimization techniques, like scheduling reads and writes to minimize head movement; effective block caching; effective reads/writes to partial blocks; reading/writing multiple blocks at once; and read-ahead. The [[ext2_filesystem_server|hurd/translator/ext2fs]] might also need some -optimisations at a higher logical level. +optimizations at a higher logical level. The goal of this project is to analyze the current situation, and implement/fix -various optimisations, to achieve significantly better disk performance. It +various optimizations, to achieve significantly better disk performance. It requires understanding the data flow through the various layers involved in -disk acces on the Hurd ([[filesystem|hurd/virtual_file_system]], +disk access on the Hurd ([[filesystem|hurd/virtual_file_system]], [[pager|hurd/libpager]], driver), and general experience with -optimising complex systems. That said, the killing feature we are definitely +optimizing complex systems. That said, the killing feature we are definitely missing is the read-ahead, and even a very simple implementation would bring very big performance speedups. |