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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: jeff.liu@oracle.com
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests: improve test 286 for repeated unwritten/hole extents.
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:06:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF30A89.9010800@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FF29F94.6030702@oracle.com>

On 07/03/12 02:30, Jeff Liu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to enlarge the test coverage of 286 to includes file mapping with repeated hole/unwritten/unwritten_without_data/data intersections.
>
> Those two new sub-tests could help verifying the current seek_data/seek_hole improvements.
>
> Besides, I observed a weird thing at the diff of 286.full, look at the the sparse file creation output,  there seems to be a significant
> I/O degradation compare to the old test01/test02 IOPS results:
>
> -1 MiB, 256 ops; 0.0000 sec (1.242 GiB/sec and 325699.7455 ops/sec)
> +1 MiB, 256 ops; 0.0000 sec (70.161 MiB/sec and 17961.1310 ops/sec)
>
> I run the test on same machine and same partition, I recalled the old result is generated against around 3.4-rc2(not very sure), now is updated
> to 3.5-rc4, does anyone hit that?
>
>

Quick feedback. I don't see any degradation.

OLD:  1 MiB, 256 ops; 0.0000 sec (484.027 MiB/sec and 123910.9390 ops/sec)
THIS: 1 MiB, 256 ops; 0.0000 sec (494.560 MiB/sec and 126607.3195 ops/sec)

All the tests are very close to the unpatched results.

> Signed-off-by: Jie Liu<jeff.liu@oracle.com>
>
> ---
>   286      |   87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   286.full |   82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------

Please, drop the 286.full patch.

--Mark Tinguely.

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-03  7:30 [PATCH] xfstests: improve test 286 for repeated unwritten/hole extents Jeff Liu
2012-07-03 15:06 ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
2012-07-03 15:39   ` Jeff Liu
2012-07-04  8:36   ` Dave Chinner

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