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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>,
	Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: observed significant performance improvement using "delaylog" in
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:13:44 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100813141344.GE10429@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100813122907.GA14650@infradead.org>

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 08:29:07AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:35:44PM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> > On Freitag, 13. August 2010 Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > > Some benchmark results maybe worth a look:
> > > http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/
> >  
> > Thanks - it would have been great to see xfs with delaylog in that 
> > comparison, but the graphs are very very nice.
> > 
> > XFS seems performing better the more threads there are, just in "large 
> > file random reads" it's the slowest - why this?
> 
> Any idea who is doing these runs?

IIRC the tests are run by someone from IBM, but I cannot remember
who it is.

> Once we figure out what that large
> file random reads loads is I'm sure we could fix it soon.

>From http://btrfs.boxacle.net/:

Random Reads (raid, single-disk) 
	Start with 1024 files. 
		100 MB files on the raid system.
		35 MB files on the single-disk system.
	Each thread reads a fixed amount of data from a random location in one file using 4 kB reads. 
		5 MB reads on the raid system.
		1 MB reads on the single-disk system.

So it's not a small random read workload (100GB data set), so the
files on XFS are probably more spread out over multiple AGs
and hence further apart than other filesystems. Hence a greater
average seek distance, hence it slower throughput....

> And asking
> him/her to add -o delaylog would also be good.

Yes, that would be an interesting comparison...

Cheers,

Dave.

-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-13 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-12 10:46 observed significant performance improvement using "delaylog" in Khelben Blackstaff
2010-08-12 19:05 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-08-12 21:46   ` Peter Niemayer
2010-08-13  9:56     ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-08-13 10:35       ` Michael Monnerie
2010-08-13 12:29         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-13 14:13           ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2010-08-13 20:42             ` Eric Sandeen
2010-08-14 11:28               ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-08-16  0:30                 ` Steven Pratt
2010-08-16  1:03                   ` Dave Chinner

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