From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@suse.de
Subject: Re: Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:04:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050309120458.7c25f5e3.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503091721.j29HLNg24054@unix-os.sc.intel.com>
"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:28 PM
> > But before doing anything else, please bench this on real hardware,
> > see if it is worth pursuing.
>
> Let me answer the questions in reverse order. We started with running
> industry standard transaction processing database benchmark on 2.6 kernel,
> on real hardware (4P smp, 64 GB memory, 450 disks) running industry
> standard db application. What we measured is that with best tuning done
> to the system, 2.6 kernel has a huge performance regression relative to
> its predecessor 2.4 kernel (a kernel from RHEL3, 2.4.21 based).
That's news to me. I thought we were doing OK with big database stuff.
Surely lots of people have been testing such things.
> And yes, it is all worth pursuing, the two patches on raw device recuperate
> 1/3 of the total benchmark performance regression.
On a real disk driver? hm, I'm wrong then.
Did you generate a kernel profile?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-09 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-09 1:39 Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-09 6:27 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-09 17:21 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-09 20:04 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-03-09 21:59 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-09 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10 1:11 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-10 1:33 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10 1:44 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-10 2:25 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10 3:47 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-10 4:04 ` David Lang
2005-03-10 4:10 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10 4:15 ` Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.xkernel David Lang
2005-03-10 4:09 ` Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel Andrew Morton
2005-03-10 18:31 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-10 20:30 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10 21:42 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-10 22:01 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10 4:28 ` Andrew Vasquez
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2005-03-09 1:53 Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-09 22:18 Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-09 23:23 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-09 23:52 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-09 23:52 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-10 1:00 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-10 0:57 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-10 1:24 Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-10 2:04 Chen, Kenneth W
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