From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] xfs: push the AIL from memory reclaim and periodic sync
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 10:15:48 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110407001548.GQ31057@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110406183356.GA23275@infradead.org>
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 02:33:56PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The patch looks correct, but I wonder what the performance implications
> of flushing the AIL every 30 seconds are. Did you benchmark the
> patchset to see what it does to performance numbers for metadata
> intensive workloads?
In my measurements it's made no difference.
If the workload is being sustained for more than a few seconds, then
memory reclaim typically becomes active and the push from there
becomes the dominating factor. This effectively makes the syncd work
trigger a no-op.
If the push from the syncd work does trigger work to be done, it's
generally because the filesystem has gone to idle or only has a low
level of modifications being done. In either case, it doesn't affect
performance, especially with delaylog pinning the working set of
metadata in memory...
Cheers,
Dave.
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-06 6:19 [PATCH 0/9] xfs: candidate fixes for 2.6.39 Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 6:19 ` [PATCH 1/9] xfs: fix extent format buffer allocation size Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 13:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-07 0:05 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-07 17:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-06 6:19 ` [PATCH 2/9] xfs: introduce a xfssyncd workqueue Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 6:19 ` [PATCH 3/9] xfs: convert ENOSPC inode flushing to use new syncd workqueue Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 6:19 ` [PATCH 4/9] xfs: introduce background inode reclaim work Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 18:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-07 0:06 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 6:19 ` [PATCH 5/9] xfs: convert the xfsaild threads to a workqueue Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 18:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-07 0:08 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 6:19 ` [PATCH 6/9] xfs: clean up code layout in xfs_trans_ail.c Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 18:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-07 0:08 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 6:19 ` [PATCH 7/9] xfs: push the AIL from memory reclaim and periodic sync Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 18:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-07 0:15 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-04-06 6:19 ` [PATCH 8/9] xfs: catch bad block numbers freeing extents Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 13:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-07 0:18 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 6:19 ` [PATCH 9/9] xfs: convert log tail checking to a warning Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 14:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-07 0:25 ` Dave Chinner
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2011-04-07 1:57 [PATCH 0/9] xfs; candidate fixes for 2.6.39 V2 Dave Chinner
2011-04-07 1:57 ` [PATCH 7/9] xfs: push the AIL from memory reclaim and periodic sync Dave Chinner
2011-04-07 21:16 ` Alex Elder
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