From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757420AbYEKOF0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 May 2008 10:05:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754766AbYEKOFQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 May 2008 10:05:16 -0400 Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk ([80.160.77.114]:54198 "EHLO pasmtpA.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751938AbYEKOFO (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 May 2008 10:05:14 -0400 Subject: Re: performance "regression" in cfq compared to anticipatory, deadline and noop From: Kasper Sandberg To: Daniel J Blueman Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, Linux Kernel , Matthew In-Reply-To: <6278d2220805110614i7160a8a5o36d55acb732c1b59@mail.gmail.com> References: <6278d2220805110614i7160a8a5o36d55acb732c1b59@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 16:02:47 +0200 Message-Id: <1210514567.7827.62.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 14:14 +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > I've been experiencing this for a while also; an almost 50% regression > is seen for single-process reads (ie sync) if slice_idle is 1ms or > more (eg default of 8) [1], which seems phenomenal. > > Jens, is this the expected price to pay for optimal busy-spindle > scheduling, a design issue, bug or am I missing something totally? > > Thanks, > Daniel > > --- [1] > > # cat /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/slice_idle > 8 > # echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=64k count=5000 > 5000+0 records in > 5000+0 records out > 327680000 bytes (328 MB) copied, 4.92922 s, 66.5 MB/s > > # echo 0 >/sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/slice_idle > # echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=64k count=5000 > 5000+0 records in > 5000+0 records out > 327680000 bytes (328 MB) copied, 2.74098 s, 120 MB/s > > # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > Timing cached reads: 15464 MB in 2.00 seconds = 7741.05 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 342 MB in 3.01 seconds = 113.70 MB/sec > > [120MB/s is known platter-rate for this disc, so expected] This appears to be what i get aswell.. root@quadstation # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=64k count=5000 5000+0 records in 5000+0 records out 327680000 bytes (328 MB) copied, 5.48209 s, 59.8 MB/s root@quadstation # echo 0 >/sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/slice_idle root@quadstation # echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches root@quadstation # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=64k count=5000 5000+0 records in 5000+0 records out 327680000 bytes (328 MB) copied, 2.93932 s, 111 MB/s root@quadstation # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda Timing cached reads: 7264 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3633.82 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 322 MB in 3.01 seconds = 107.00 MB/se root@quadstation # echo 0 >/sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/slice_idle root@quadstation # echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches root@quadstation # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda Timing cached reads: 15268 MB in 2.00 seconds = 7643.54 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 328 MB in 3.01 seconds = 108.85 MB/sec To be sure, i did it all again: noop: root@quadstation # echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches root@quadstation # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=64k count=5000 5000+0 records in 5000+0 records out 327680000 bytes (328 MB) copied, 2.85503 s, 115 MB/s root@quadstation # echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches root@quadstation # hdparm -tT /dev/sda Timing cached reads: 14076 MB in 2.00 seconds = 7045.78 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 328 MB in 3.01 seconds = 109.12 MB/sec anticipatory: root@quadstation # echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches root@quadstation # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=64k count=5000 5000+0 records in 5000+0 records out 327680000 bytes (328 MB) copied, 2.96948 s, 110 MB/s root@quadstation # echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches root@quadstation # hdparm -tT /dev/sda Timing cached reads: 13424 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6719.29 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 328 MB in 3.01 seconds = 109.13 MB/sec cfq: root@quadstation # echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches root@quadstation # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=64k count=5000 5000+0 records in 5000+0 records out 327680000 bytes (328 MB) copied, 5.25252 s, 62.4 MB/s root@quadstation # echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches root@quadstation # hdparm -tT /dev/sda Timing cached reads: 13434 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6723.59 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 188 MB in 3.00 seconds = 62.57 MB/sec Thisd would appear to be quite a considerable performance difference.