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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: PERF: performance tests with the split LRU VM in -mm
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:16:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080729091650.0ddca3d8@bree.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080729220012.F192.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:04:16 +0900
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> >   TEST 1: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1M
> > 
> > kernel  speed    swap used
> > 
> > 2.6.26  111MB/s  500kB
> > -mm     110MB/s  59MB     (ouch, system noticably slower)
> > noforce	111MB/s  128kB
> > stream  108MB/s  0        (slight regression, not sure why yet)
> 
> I tried to reproduce it, my ia64 result was
> 
> kernel                   speed        swap used
> 2.6.26-rc8               49.8MB/s     1M
> 2.6.26-rc8-mm1           47.6MB/s     168M
> -mm with above two patch 50.2MB/s     0
> 
> 
> So, I think it isn't regression.

Agreed.  It looked like it, but once I changed the cpuspeed
governor from ondemand to performance, I saw that it had to
be an artifact of something else.

Getting rid of the swap use from a linear IO is the important
part.

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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: PERF: performance tests with the split LRU VM in -mm
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:16:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080729091650.0ddca3d8@bree.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080729220012.F192.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:04:16 +0900
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> >   TEST 1: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1M
> > 
> > kernel  speed    swap used
> > 
> > 2.6.26  111MB/s  500kB
> > -mm     110MB/s  59MB     (ouch, system noticably slower)
> > noforce	111MB/s  128kB
> > stream  108MB/s  0        (slight regression, not sure why yet)
> 
> I tried to reproduce it, my ia64 result was
> 
> kernel                   speed        swap used
> 2.6.26-rc8               49.8MB/s     1M
> 2.6.26-rc8-mm1           47.6MB/s     168M
> -mm with above two patch 50.2MB/s     0
> 
> 
> So, I think it isn't regression.

Agreed.  It looked like it, but once I changed the cpuspeed
governor from ondemand to performance, I saw that it had to
be an artifact of something else.

Getting rid of the swap use from a linear IO is the important
part.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-29 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-25  2:25 PERF: performance tests with the split LRU VM in -mm Rik van Riel
2008-07-25  2:25 ` Rik van Riel
2008-07-28 14:57 ` Rik van Riel
2008-07-28 14:57   ` Rik van Riel
2008-07-28 15:30   ` Ray Lee
2008-07-28 15:30     ` Ray Lee
2008-07-28 23:41   ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-28 23:41     ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-28 23:57     ` Rik van Riel
2008-07-28 23:57       ` Rik van Riel
2008-07-29  0:03       ` Rik van Riel
2008-07-29  0:03         ` Rik van Riel
2008-07-29  0:17         ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-29  0:17           ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-29  0:31           ` Rik van Riel
2008-07-29  0:31             ` Rik van Riel
2008-07-29  0:46           ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-07-29  0:46             ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-07-29 13:21         ` Johannes Weiner
2008-07-29 13:21           ` Johannes Weiner
2008-07-29 13:28           ` Rik van Riel
2008-07-29 13:28             ` Rik van Riel
2008-07-29 13:04 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-29 13:04   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-29 13:16   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2008-07-29 13:16     ` Rik van Riel
2008-07-29 13:51 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-07-29 13:51   ` Johannes Weiner

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