From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: fio rand read/write regression with 2.6.32-rc3
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:02:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091010080200.GO9228@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091010080117.GN9228@kernel.dk>
On Sat, Oct 10 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10 2009, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> > Comparing with 2.6.23-rc1's result, fio rand read write has regression
> > on my 2*4 core stoakley machine (8GB memory) with a JBOD of 12 disks.
> >
> > Every disk has 8 1-GB files. Start 8 sub-processes per disk and every
> > process random chooses a file on the disk to do 36 times of file read or
> > write on the file and then choose another file.
> >
> >
> > fio_mmap_rand_read_4k regresion is about 35%.
>
> Heh, I seem to recollect I told Linus that this would cost is 30-40%
> performance. So not totally crazy.
>
> So yes, this isn't hugely unexpected. If you send me your fio job files,
> I'll try and see what I can do about it.
Oh, and can you check whether setting
/sys/block/sdX/queue/iosched/low_latency
to 0 for the involved devices makes the regression go away?
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-10 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-10 5:48 fio rand read/write regression with 2.6.32-rc3 Zhang, Yanmin
2009-10-10 8:01 ` Jens Axboe
2009-10-10 8:02 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2009-10-10 9:47 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-10-10 9:52 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-10-11 8:23 ` Corrado Zoccolo
2009-10-12 5:50 ` Zhang, Yanmin
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