On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 11:05:56AM +0100, Jacek Luczak wrote:

I've took both on tests. The subject is acp and spd_readdir used with
tar, all on ext4:
1) acp: http://91.234.146.107/~difrost/seekwatcher/acp_ext4.png
2) spd_readdir: http://91.234.146.107/~difrost/seekwatcher/tar_ext4_readir.png
3) both: http://91.234.146.107/~difrost/seekwatcher/acp_vs_spd_ext4.png

The acp looks much better than spd_readdir but directory copy with
spd_readdir decreased to 52m 39sec (30 min less).

Do you have stats on how big these files are, and how fragmented they
are?  For acp and spd to give us this, I think something has gone wrong
at writeback time (creating individual fragmented files).

-chris