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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: "Chilukuri, Harita" <harita.chilukuri@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Wilcox, Matthew R" <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>,
	"Ma, Chinang" <chinang.ma@intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Tripathi, Sharad C" <sharad.c.tripathi@intel.com>,
	"arjan@linux.intel.com" <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	"Styner, Douglas W" <douglas.w.styner@intel.com>,
	"Wang, Peter Xihong" <peter.xihong.wang@intel.com>,
	"Nueckel, Hubert" <hubert.nueckel@intel.com>,
	"chris.mason@oracle.com" <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	"srostedt@redhat.com" <srostedt@redhat.com>,
	"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>,
	Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance update
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:28:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090127082814.GN30821@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <588992150B702C48B3312184F1B810AD03A4F59632@azsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Mon, Jan 26 2009, Chilukuri, Harita wrote:
> Jens, we did test the patch that disables the whole stats. We get 0.5% gain with this patch on 2.6.29-rc2 comparing to 2.6.29-rc2-disbale_part_stats
> 
> Below is the description of the result:
> 
> Linux OLTP Performance summary
> Kernel#                               Speedup(x) Intr/s  CtxSw/s  us%    sys%    idle% iowait%
> 2.6.29-rc2-disbale_partition_stats     1.000    30413   42582    74      25      0       0
> 2.6.29-rc2-disable_all                 1.005    30401   42656    74      25      0       0
> 
> Server configurations:
> Intel Xeon Quad-core 2.0GHz  2 cpus/8 cores/8 threads
> 64GB memory, 3 qle2462 FC HBA, 450 spindles (30 logical units)

OK, so about the same, which means the lookup is likely the expensive
bit. I have merged this patch:

http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=e5b74b703da41fab060adc335a0b98fa5a5ea61d

which exposes an 'iostats' toggle that allows users to disable disk
statistics completely.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-27  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <BC02C49EEB98354DBA7F5DD76F2A9E800317003CB0@azsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
     [not found] ` <CAC4B8726E86A142B27A9E9A2F2F12479D3E945F@rrsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>
2009-01-15  0:35   ` Mainline kernel OLTP performance update Andrew Morton
2009-01-15  1:21     ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-15  2:04       ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-15  2:27         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-15  7:11           ` Ma, Chinang
2009-01-19 18:04             ` Chris Mason
2009-01-19 18:37               ` Steven Rostedt
     [not found]               ` <1232390259.25783.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2009-01-19 18:55                 ` Chris Mason
2009-01-19 19:07                   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-19 23:40                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-15  2:39         ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-15  2:47           ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-15  3:36             ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-20 13:27             ` Jens Axboe
     [not found]               ` <588992150B702C48B3312184F1B810AD03A497632C@azsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
2009-01-22 11:29                 ` Jens Axboe
     [not found]                   ` <588992150B702C48B3312184F1B810AD03A4F59632@azsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
2009-01-27  8:28                     ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2009-01-15  7:24         ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-15  9:46           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-15 13:52             ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-15 14:42               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-16 10:16               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-16 10:21                 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 10:31                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-16 10:42                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 10:55                       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-19  7:13                         ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19  8:05                           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-19  8:33                             ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19  8:42                               ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19  8:47                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-19  8:57                                   ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19  9:48                               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-19 10:03                                 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 20:59                     ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-16  0:27           ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-16  4:03             ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  4:12               ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-16  6:46                 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  6:55                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-16  7:06                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  7:53                     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-16 10:20                       ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-20  5:16                         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-21 23:58                           ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-22  8:36                             ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-22  9:15                               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-22  9:28                                 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-22  9:47                                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  3:02                                     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23  6:52                                       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  8:06                                         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  8:30                                           ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23  8:40                                             ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  9:46                                             ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:22                                               ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 15:31                                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:55                                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 16:01                                                     ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-24  2:55                                                 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-24  7:36                                                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-12  5:22                                                     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-12  5:47                                                       ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-12 15:25                                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-12 16:07                                                           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-12 16:03                                                         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-26 17:36                                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-01  2:52                                                     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23  8:33                                       ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23  9:02                                         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23 18:40                                           ` care and feeding of netperf (Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance update) Rick Jones
2009-01-23 18:51                                             ` Grant Grundler
2009-01-24  3:03                                             ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-26 18:26                                               ` Rick Jones
2009-01-16  7:00                   ` Mainline kernel OLTP performance update Andrew Morton
2009-01-16  7:25                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  8:59                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 18:11                   ` Rick Jones
2009-01-19  7:43                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19 22:19                       ` Rick Jones
2009-01-15 14:12         ` James Bottomley
2009-01-15 17:44           ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-15 18:00             ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-15 18:14               ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-15 18:44                 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-01-15 18:46                   ` Wilcox, Matthew R
2009-01-15 19:44                     ` Ma, Chinang
2009-01-16 18:14                       ` Gregory Haskins
2009-01-16 19:09                         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-20 12:45                         ` Gregory Haskins
2009-01-15 19:28                 ` Ma, Chinang
2009-01-15 16:48       ` Ma, Chinang
     [not found] <D7C42C27E6CB1E4D8CBDF2F81EA92A260345836A3A@azsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
2009-04-27  7:02 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-28 16:57   ` Chuck Ebbert
2009-04-28 17:15     ` James Bottomley
2009-04-28 17:17       ` Styner, Douglas W

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