From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
To: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: "teravest@google.com" <teravest@google.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Shi, Alex" <alex.shi@intel.com>
Subject: Re: cfq-iosched: a regression
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:33:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E4E03D5.40404@fusionio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1313462826.27321.22.camel@sli10-conroe>
On 2011-08-16 04:47, Shaohua Li wrote:
> We have a kernel build regression since 3.1-rc1, which is about 10%
> regression. The kernel source is in an ext3 filesystem.
> Alex Shi bisect it to commit:
> commit a07405b7802691d29ab3b23bdc76ee6d006aad0b
> Author: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
> Date: Sun Jul 10 22:09:19 2011 +0200
>
> cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs.
>
> Apparently this is caused by lack metadata preemption, where ext3/ext4
> do use READ_META. I didn't see a way to fix the issue, so suggest
> reverting the patch.
>
> Reported-by: Alex Shi<alex.shi@intel.com>
> Reported-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
I had a gut feeling on that meta data, it's hard to know exactly where
it helps at this point. I'll revert the commit and then we can diagnose
this on the side.
--
Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-19 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-16 2:47 cfq-iosched: a regression Shaohua Li
2011-08-18 20:22 ` Justin TerAvest
2011-08-19 0:21 ` Shaohua Li
2011-08-19 6:33 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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