From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Waiman Long Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH-tip 6/6] xfs: Enable reader optimistic spinning for DAX inodes Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:08:56 -0400 Message-ID: <57605648.6060705@hpe.com> References: <1465927959-39719-1-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com> <1465927959-39719-7-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com> <20160614182423.GA6330@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160614182423.GA6330@infradead.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com List-Archive: List-Post: To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Davidlohr Bueso , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Scott J Norton , Peter Zijlstra , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, Ingo Molnar , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, Douglas Hatch , Jason Low List-ID: On 06/14/2016 02:24 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 02:12:39PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: >> This patch enables reader optimistic spinning for inodes that are >> under a DAX-based mount point. >> >> On a 4-socket Haswell machine running on a 4.7-rc1 tip-based kernel, >> the fio test with multithreaded randrw and randwrite tests on the >> same file on a XFS partition on top of a NVDIMM with DAX were run, >> the aggregated bandwidths before and after the patch were as follows: > And why is this specific to DAX? Many I/O operations already never > got out to disk, and ilock is mostly held for operations that have > nothing to do with disk I/O. It is just a showcase for the rwsem change. We can certainly have more use cases. Cheers, Longman _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs