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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: markw@osdl.org
Cc: akpm@digeo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wli@holomorphy.com,
	Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: OSDL DBT-2 AS vs. Deadline 2.5.68-mm2
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 19:36:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030507173637.GQ823@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305071659.h47GxmW22250@mail.osdl.org>

On Wed, May 07 2003, markw@osdl.org wrote:
> On  7 May, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Wed, May 07 2003, markw@osdl.org wrote:
> >> I've collected some data from STP to see if it's useful or if there's
> >> anything else that would be useful to collect. I've got some tests
> >> queued up for the newer patches, but I wanted to put out what I had so
> >> far.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> METRICS OVER LAST 20 MINUTES:
> >> --------------- -------- ----- ---- -------- -----------------------------------
> >> Kernel          Elevator NOTPM CPU% Blocks/s URL                                
> >> --------------- -------- ----- ---- -------- -----------------------------------
> >> 2.5.68-mm2      as        1155 94.3   8940.2 http://khack.osdl.org/stp/271356/  
> >> 2.5.68-mm2      deadline  1255 94.9   9598.7 http://khack.osdl.org/stp/271359/  
> >> 
> >> FUNCTIONS SORTED BY TICKS:
> >> -- ------------------------- ------- ------------------------- -------
> >>  # as 2.5.68-mm2             ticks   deadline 2.5.68-mm2       ticks  
> >> -- ------------------------- ------- ------------------------- -------
> >>  1 default_idle              6103428 default_idle              5359025
> >>  2 bounce_copy_vec             86272 bounce_copy_vec             97696
> >>  3 schedule                    63819 schedule                    70114
> >>  4 __make_request              30397 __blk_queue_bounce          31167
> >>  5 __blk_queue_bounce          26962 scsi_request_fn             26623
> >>  6 scsi_request_fn             24845 __make_request              25012
> > 
> > uhh nasty, you are spending a lot of time bouncing. How much RAM is in
> > the machine, and what is the scsi hba?
> 
> The system has 4GB of memory and has a DECchip 21554 (aacraid) that the
> external drives are connected to.  Mark Haverkamp is currently trying to
> address those bounce buffers.

aacraid actually looks sane enough. so you should just be able to set
host->highmem_io and it should work.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-07 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-07 16:33 OSDL DBT-2 AS vs. Deadline 2.5.68-mm2 markw
2003-05-07 16:44 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07 16:47 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 16:59   ` markw
2003-05-07 17:36     ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2003-05-07 17:39       ` Mark Haverkamp
2003-05-07 22:41         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-05-07 16:59 ` Martin Josefsson
2003-05-07 17:32   ` markw
2003-05-08  1:41 ` Nick Piggin
2003-05-08 16:12   ` markw
2003-05-08 16:17     ` Jens Axboe

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