From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kara Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v9 Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 23:14:38 +0200 Message-ID: <20090605211438.GA11650@duck.suse.cz> References: <1243511204-2328-1-git-send-email-jens.axboe@oracle.com> <20090604152040.GA6007@nowhere> <20090604120726.708a2211.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090604191309.GA4862@nowhere> <20090604195013.GB11363@kernel.dk> <20090604201012.GD11363@kernel.dk> <20090604223449.GA13780@nowhere> <20090605191528.GV11363@kernel.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Frederic Weisbecker , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, chris.mason@oracle.com, david@fromorbit.com, hch@infradead.org, jack@suse.cz, yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com, richard@rsk.demon.co.uk, damien.wyart@free.fr To: Jens Axboe Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:58642 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752001AbZFEVOl (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:14:41 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090605191528.GV11363@kernel.dk> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri 05-06-09 21:15:28, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > The result with noop is even more impressive. > > > > See: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/frederic/dbench-noop.pdf > > > > Also a comparison, noop with pdflush against noop with bdi writeback: > > > > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/frederic/dbench-noop-cmp.pdf > > OK, so things aren't exactly peachy here to begin with. It may not > actually BE an issue, or at least now a new one, but that doesn't mean > that we should not attempt to quantify the impact. What looks interesting is also the overall throughput. With pdflush we get to 2.5 MB/s + 26 MB/s while with per-bdi we get to 2.7 MB/s + 13 MB/s. So per-bdi seems to be *more* fair but throughput suffers a lot (which might be inevitable due to incurred seeks). Frederic, how much does dbench achieve for you just on one partition (test both consecutively if possible) with as many threads as have those two dbench instances together? Thanks. Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR