From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 writepages is making tiny bios?
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 17:27:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090901212740.GA9930@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090901205744.GE6996@mit.edu>
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 04:57:44PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > This graph shows the difference:
> >
> > http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/seekwatcher/trace-buffered.png
>
> Wow, I'm surprised how seeky XFS was in these graphs compared to ext4
> and btrfs. I wonder what was going on.
XFS did the mistake of trusting the VM, while everyone more or less
overrode it. Removing all those checks and writing out much larger
data fixes it with a relatively small patch:
http://verein.lst.de/~hch/xfs/xfs-writeback-scaling
when that code was last benchamrked extensively (on SLES9) it
worked nicely to saturate extremly large machines using buffered
I/O, since then VM tuning basically destroyed it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-01 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-01 18:44 ext4 writepages is making tiny bios? Chris Mason
2009-09-01 20:57 ` Theodore Tso
2009-09-01 21:27 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-09-02 0:17 ` Chris Mason
2009-09-03 5:52 ` Dave Chinner
2009-09-03 16:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-04 0:15 ` Theodore Tso
2009-09-04 7:20 ` Jens Axboe
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