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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
	Laurent CORBES <laurent.corbes@smartjog.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: Ext3 sequential read performance drop 2.6.29 -> 2.6.30,2.6.31,...
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 05:06:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091103100645.GA13118@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091102135554.b10ece3e.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 01:55:54PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:09:55 +0200
> Laurent CORBES <laurent.corbes@smartjog.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > While benchmarking some systems I discover a big sequential read performance
> > drop using ext3 on ~ big files. The drop seems to be introduced in 2.6.30. I'm
> > testing with 2.6.28.6 -> 2.6.29.6 -> 2.6.30.4 -> 2.6.31.3.
> 
> Seems that large performance regressions aren't of interest to this
> list :(

No sure which list you mean, but dm-devel is for dm, not md.  We're also
seeing similarly massive performance drops with md and ext3/xfs as
already reported on the list.  Someone tracked it down to writeback
changes as usual, but there it got stuck.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-03 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20091013120955.6bd5844b@smartjog.com>
2009-10-13 13:10 ` Ext3 sequential read performance drop 2.6.29 -> 2.6.30,2.6.31, Laurent CORBES
2009-11-02 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-03 10:06   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-11-03 10:42     ` NeilBrown
2009-11-03 10:55       ` [dm-devel] " Laurent CORBES
2009-11-04  7:16         ` Neil Brown
2009-11-03 16:50       ` Andrew Morton

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