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From: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
To: linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Ext4 performance regression:  Post 2.6.30
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:25:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1269843935.13369.52.camel@keith-laptop> (raw)



After 2.6.30 I am seeing large performance regressions on a raid setup.
I am working to publish a larger amount of data but I wanted to get some
quick data out about what I am seeing. 

The test (FFSB test suite) I am running is basically random direct io
writes.  The below data is from 128 threads all doing these random
writes. 1 and 32 thread results are not as drastically bad but 2.6.30
has the strongest results.  

  Under a mailserver workload I see similar performance impacts at this
same kernel change point.  I hope to publish better data soon.  Several
other workload types do not show this performance regression. 
 

2.6.30:

Total Results
===============
             Op Name   Transactions	 Trans/sec	% Trans	    % Op Weight
Throughput
             =======   ============	 =========	=======	    ===========
==========
               write :      9015040	  29561.46	100.000%		100.000%
115MB/sec
-
29561.46 Transactions per Second


Any kernel past 2.6.30.  This is from 2.6.31-rc1:

Total Results
===============
             Op Name   Transactions	 Trans/sec	% Trans	    % Op Weight
Throughput
             =======   ============	 =========	=======	    ===========
==========
               write :      3185920	  10120.50	100.000%		100.000%
39.5MB/sec

             reply	other threads:[~2010-03-29  6:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-29  6:25 Keith Mannthey [this message]
2010-03-29 15:10 ` Ext4 performance regression: Post 2.6.30 Greg Freemyer
2010-03-31  1:56   ` Keith Mannthey
2010-03-31  4:06     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-03-31 22:02       ` Keith Mannthey
2010-03-31 22:06         ` Greg Freemyer
2010-03-31 22:14           ` Keith Mannthey
2010-03-31 22:55             ` Greg Freemyer

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