Re: REPORT: High CPU utilization since 2.2.5

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 02/20/2015 04:10 PM, Kudryavtsev, Andrey O wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> I’m running NVMe SSD benchmarks which are using multi-job configurations in the most common scenarios.
> I have noticed that since 2.2.5 release FIO has 3-4 times higher CPU utilization on the same workload, same system, same kernel 3.18.
> In fact I’m not able to achieve 450k IOPS on latest Core-i7 CPU due to 100% utilization.
> I tracked down the changes back, 2.1.14 is the most stable for me. Release had 2.2.0 the reporting issues, which were fixed in 2.2.5 but introduced high CPU utilization instead.
> Did anyone notice that too?
> 
> Configuration details are bellow:
> 
> [global]
> name=4k random read 4 ios in the queue in 32 queues
> filename=/dev/nvme0n1
> ioengine=libaio
> direct=1
> bs=4k
> rw=randread
> iodepth=4
> numjobs=32
> buffered=0
> size=100%
> runtime=0
> randrepeat=0
> norandommap
> refill_buffers
> [job1]

Can you try and bisect the issue?

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Jens Axboe