Re: [patch] zero-bounce block highmem I/O, #13

Jens Axboe
2001-08-28T11:42:57Z

On Tue, Aug 28 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> Hi Jens,
>
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 28 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> >> Hi Jens,
> >>
> >> I tested both #11 and #13 on my 8GB machine with sym53c8xx. The
> >> initialization of a SAP DB database takes 20 minutes with 2.4.9 and
> >> with 2.4.9+b13 it took nearly 2.5 hours :-(
> >
> > DaveM hinted that it's probably the bounce test failing, so it's
> > bouncing all the time. That would explain the much worse
> > performance. Could you try with this incremental patch on top of
> > b13 for 2.4.9? I still want to see the boot detection info, btw.
>
> Apparently it did not help. See attachments: vmstat was 'vmstat
> 5'. The b13 output is only the end. The b13-1 is still running but the
> blockout rate is again low. So I do not wait another 2 hours...

Nope fine, no need to wait :-)

The -2 patch I sent should fix it, performance looks good here (just a
5min test run to verify).

What happened was that we would fall back to single segment requests all
the time. A real performance killer for SCSI.

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Jens Axboe