From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/21] random fixes
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 01:35:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020814083515.GM15685@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D56146B.C3CAB5E1@zip.com.au>
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 12:38:19AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Sorry, but there's a ton of stuff here. It ends up as a 4600 line
> diff. Some code dating back to 2.5.24. It's almost all performance
> work and it has been very painful getting its effectiveness tested
> on the big machines; the main problem has been getting them booting
> 2.5 at all. The results still are not as conclusive as I'd like,
> but the signs are good, and there are no other proposals around to
> fix these problems.
dbench 256 on a 16x/16G numaq:
Throughput 50.7526 MB/sec (NB=63.4408 MB/sec 507.526 MBit/sec) 256 procs
c013bf74 13251607 72.928 .text.lock.highmem
c013b7d0 1606972 8.84371 kunmap_high
c013b5dc 1211097 6.66507 kmap_high
c012f260 459420 2.52834 generic_file_write
c0114820 166854 0.918253 scheduler_tick
c012e53c 166773 0.917808 file_read_actor
c0105394 125561 0.691004 default_idle
c013bcbc 75623 0.416179 blk_queue_bounce
c013564c 72289 0.397831 rmqueue
c01113b8 69062 0.380071 smp_apic_timer_interrupt
c0143cec 64782 0.356517 block_prepare_write
c014330c 53426 0.294021 __block_prepare_write
c0142ee8 39892 0.219539 create_empty_buffers
c012dec0 39161 0.215516 unlock_page
c01143d8 38648 0.212693 load_balance
c013b558 34840 0.191736 flush_all_zero_pkmaps
c0135d28 33414 0.183888 page_cache_release
c013429c 22753 0.125217 lru_cache_add
c0135b10 20326 0.111861 __alloc_pages
c0143d98 19833 0.109148 generic_commit_write
c012dcb4 18150 0.0998855 add_to_page_cache
c0140044 17758 0.0977282 vfs_write
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-14 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-11 7:38 [patch 1/21] random fixes Andrew Morton
2002-08-11 7:56 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-11 14:29 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-08-11 18:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-12 0:27 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-08-12 0:41 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-12 4:58 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-13 0:26 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-08-13 0:49 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-13 2:25 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-08-13 3:03 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-13 4:10 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-08-13 5:25 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-13 12:37 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-08-13 17:21 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-13 5:32 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-13 15:39 ` Daniel Egger
2002-08-14 0:01 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-08-12 2:54 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-08-12 3:40 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-14 8:35 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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