From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: iosched: effect of streaming read on streaming write
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:28:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030220212829.6319d09c.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030220212304.4712fee9.akpm@digeo.com>
Here we look at how much damage a streaming read can do to writeout
performance. Start a streaming read with:
while true
do
cat 512M-file > /dev/null
done
and measure how long it takes to write out and fsync a 100 megabyte file:
time write-and-fsync -f -m 100 outfile
2.4.21-pre4: 6.4 seconds
2.5.61+hacks: 7.7 seconds
2.5.61+CFQ: 8.4 seconds
2.5.61+AS: 11.9 seconds
This is the one where the anticipatory scheduler could show its downside.
It's actually not too bad - the read stream steals 2/3rds of the disk
bandwidth. Dirty memory will reach the vm threshold and writers will
throttle. This is usually what we want to happen.
Here is the vmstat 1 trace for the anticipatory scheduler:
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
1 1 8728 2268 2620 233412 0 0 40360 0 1658 802 0 4 0 96
0 2 8728 3780 2508 231924 0 0 40616 4 1668 874 0 5 0 95
0 2 8728 3668 2276 232416 0 0 40740 20 1668 978 0 4 0 96
0 3 8728 3660 2192 232668 40 0 35296 12 1603 904 0 4 0 95
0 5 8728 3612 1964 231672 0 0 26220 18572 1497 1381 0 15 0 85
0 5 8728 2100 1732 233584 0 0 25232 8696 1497 867 0 3 16 81
0 5 8728 3664 1204 232424 0 0 27668 8696 1533 787 0 3 0 97
1 4 8728 2432 792 234108 0 0 27160 8696 1527 965 0 3 0 97
0 6 8728 2208 760 234436 0 0 25904 9584 1513 856 0 3 0 97
2 6 8728 3776 760 233148 0 0 27776 8716 1537 880 0 3 0 97
0 6 8728 2204 624 234968 0 0 27924 8812 1541 991 0 4 0 96
0 4 8716 2508 600 234740 0 0 28188 8216 1537 1038 0 4 0 96
0 4 8716 4072 532 233316 0 16 25624 9644 1515 896 0 3 0 97
0 4 8716 3740 548 233624 0 0 27548 8696 1528 908 0 3 0 97
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-21 5:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-21 5:23 IO scheduler benchmarking Andrew Morton
2003-02-21 5:23 ` iosched: parallel streaming reads Andrew Morton
2003-02-21 5:24 ` iosched: effect of streaming write on interactivity Andrew Morton
2003-02-21 5:25 ` iosched: effect of streaming read " Andrew Morton
2003-02-21 5:25 ` iosched: time to copy many small files Andrew Morton
2003-02-21 5:26 ` iosched: concurrent reads of " Andrew Morton
2003-02-21 5:27 ` iosched: impact of streaming write on streaming read Andrew Morton
2003-02-21 5:27 ` iosched: impact of streaming write on read-many-files Andrew Morton
2003-02-21 5:27 ` iosched: impact of streaming read " Andrew Morton
2003-02-21 10:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-21 10:55 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-21 11:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-21 21:11 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-23 15:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-25 12:02 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-21 5:28 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-02-21 6:51 ` IO scheduler benchmarking David Lang
2003-02-21 8:16 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-21 10:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-21 10:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-21 11:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-21 11:17 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-21 11:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-21 21:25 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-23 15:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-21 11:34 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-21 12:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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