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From: Michael Frank <mhf@linuxmail.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Jon Burgess <lkml@jburgess.uklinux.net>
Cc: linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext2/3 performance regression in 2.6 vs 2.4 for small interleaved writes
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 05:02:39 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200402120502.39300.mhf@linuxmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402111528140.23220-100000@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com>

On Thursday 12 February 2004 04:28, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Jon Burgess wrote:
> 
> > Write speed in MB/s using an ext2 filesystem for 1 and 2 streams:
> > Num streams:     1      2
> > linux-2.4.22   10.47  6.98
> > linux-2.6.2     9.71  0.34
> 
> > During the disk light is on solid and it really slows any other disk 
> > access. It looks like the disk is continuously seeking backwards and 
> > forwards, perhaps re-writing the meta data.
> 
> Just for fun, could you also try measuring how long it takes
> to read back the files in question ?
> 
> Both individually and in parallel...
> 

2.4 has a deadline scheduler. 2.6 default is anticipatory.

Could you please boot with scheduler=deadline to compare apples with apples.

Regards
Michael



  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-11 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-11 19:04 ext2/3 performance regression in 2.6 vs 2.4 for small interleaved writes Jon Burgess
2004-02-11 20:28 ` Rik van Riel
2004-02-11 21:02   ` Michael Frank [this message]
2004-02-11 21:18     ` Diego Calleja
2004-02-12  2:00       ` Dave Olien
2004-02-12  2:23         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-12  9:42           ` ext2/3 performance regression in 2.6 vs 2.4 for small interl Giuliano Pochini
2004-02-12 10:15             ` John Bradford
2004-02-12 10:27             ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-12 17:05               ` Michael Frank
2004-02-12 17:18                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-12 20:55                   ` Helge Hafting
2004-02-13  1:57                     ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-13  2:05                       ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-12 14:59             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-13 12:15     ` ext2/3 performance regression in 2.6 vs 2.4 for small interleaved writes Jon Burgess
2004-02-12 10:40   ` Jon Burgess
2004-02-12 20:17     ` Hans Reiser
2004-02-12  9:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-12 20:20   ` Jon Burgess
2004-02-13  8:28     ` Juan Piernas Canovas
2004-02-16 17:51     ` Alex Zarochentsev
2004-02-16 20:03       ` Jon Burgess
2004-02-13 12:35   ` Jon Burgess
2004-02-14 15:00   ` Jon Burgess

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