Re: ext4 compile bench is slower

[Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>]

On Jul 23, 2008  08:30 -0500, Jose R. Santos wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:58:50 -0600
> Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> wrote:
> > Jose, do you have ext3 results on the same system
> > for the benchmarks you ran?  That would tell us how much improvement we
> > get from other ext4 features (e.g. extents vs. block allocation) and how
> > much from flex_bg.
> 
> No I dont, I tried doing some runs yesterday but after updating the
> kernel, the results flex_bg are about the same as without it and ext3
> is a lot faster than ext4.  Im investigating to see if I messed up the
> kernel build somehow or if we have a regression.

There was another report that the current ext4 code is no longer faster
at compilebench than ext3.

> Valerie did a very comprehensive set of comparisons that could be
> useful for the presentation.  I'll try to see if I can recreate this
> once I figure out the regression im seeing but would this work for now?
> 
> http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20080530/ffsb-readwrite-2.6.26-rc2.html

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.