Re: [patch 3/5] mm: try to distribute dirty pages fairly across zones

[Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 07:33:21PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > //regression
> > 3) much increased cpu %user and %system for btrfs
> 
> Sorry I find out that the CPU time regressions for btrfs are caused by
> some additional trace events enabled on btrfs (for debugging an
> unrelated btrfs hang bug) which results in 7 times more trace event
> lines:
> 
>  2701238 /export/writeback/thresh=1000M/btrfs-1dd-4k-8p-2941M-1000M:10-3.1.0-rc9-ioless-full-nfs-wq5-next-20111014+
> 19054054 /export/writeback/thresh=1000M/btrfs-1dd-4k-8p-2941M-1000M:10-3.1.0-rc9-ioless-full-per-zone-dirty-next-20111014+
> 
> So no real regressions.

Phew :-)

> Besides, the patchset also performs good on random writes:
> 
> 3.1.0-rc9-ioless-full-nfs-wq5-next-20111014+  3.1.0-rc9-ioless-full-per-zone-dirty-next-20111014+  
> ------------------------  ------------------------  
>                     1.65        -5.1%         1.57  MMAP-RANDWRITE-4K/btrfs-fio_fat_mmap_randwrite_4k-4k-8p-4096M-20:10-X
>                    18.65        -6.4%        17.46  MMAP-RANDWRITE-4K/ext3-fio_fat_mmap_randwrite_4k-4k-8p-4096M-20:10-X
>                     2.09        +1.2%         2.12  MMAP-RANDWRITE-4K/ext4-fio_fat_mmap_randwrite_4k-4k-8p-4096M-20:10-X
>                     2.49        -0.3%         2.48  MMAP-RANDWRITE-4K/xfs-fio_fat_mmap_randwrite_4k-4k-8p-4096M-20:10-X
>                    51.35        +0.0%        51.36  MMAP-RANDWRITE-64K/btrfs-fio_fat_mmap_randwrite_64k-64k-8p-4096M-20:10-X
>                    45.20        +0.5%        45.43  MMAP-RANDWRITE-64K/ext3-fio_fat_mmap_randwrite_64k-64k-8p-4096M-20:10-X
>                    44.77        +0.7%        45.10  MMAP-RANDWRITE-64K/ext4-fio_fat_mmap_randwrite_64k-64k-8p-4096M-20:10-X
>                    45.11        +2.5%        46.23  MMAP-RANDWRITE-64K/xfs-fio_fat_mmap_randwrite_64k-64k-8p-4096M-20:10-X
>                   211.31        +0.2%       211.74  TOTAL write_bw

Hmm, mmapped IO page allocations are not annotated yet, so I expect
this to be just runtime variations?

> And writes to USB key:
> 
> 3.1.0-rc9-ioless-full-nfs-wq5-next-20111014+  3.1.0-rc9-ioless-full-per-zone-dirty-next-20111014+  
> ------------------------  ------------------------  
>                     5.94        +0.8%         5.99  UKEY-thresh=1G/btrfs-1dd-4k-8p-4096M-1024M:10-X
>                     2.64        -0.8%         2.62  UKEY-thresh=1G/ext3-10dd-4k-8p-4096M-1024M:10-X
>                     5.10        +0.3%         5.12  UKEY-thresh=1G/ext3-1dd-4k-8p-4096M-1024M:10-X
>                     3.26        -0.8%         3.24  UKEY-thresh=1G/ext3-2dd-4k-8p-4096M-1024M:10-X
>                     5.63        -0.5%         5.60  UKEY-thresh=1G/ext4-10dd-4k-8p-4096M-1024M:10-X
>                     6.04        -0.1%         6.04  UKEY-thresh=1G/ext4-1dd-4k-8p-4096M-1024M:10-X
>                     5.90        -0.2%         5.88  UKEY-thresh=1G/ext4-2dd-4k-8p-4096M-1024M:10-X
>                     2.45       +22.6%         3.00  UKEY-thresh=1G/xfs-10dd-4k-8p-4096M-1024M:10-X
>                     6.18        -0.4%         6.16  UKEY-thresh=1G/xfs-1dd-4k-8p-4096M-1024M:10-X
>                     4.81        +0.0%         4.81  UKEY-thresh=1G/xfs-2dd-4k-8p-4096M-1024M:10-X
>                    47.94        +1.1%        48.45  TOTAL write_bw
> 
> In summary, I see no problem at all in these trivial writeback tests.
> 
> Tested-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>

Thanks!

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