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* NFS client (10x) performance regression 2.6.14.7 -> 2.6.15
@ 2006-03-31  9:48 Jakob Oestergaard
  2006-03-31 11:22 ` NFS client regression, simple test program Jakob Oestergaard
  2006-03-31 12:22 ` NFS client (10x) performance regression 2.6.14.7 -> 2.6.15 Trond Myklebust
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 24+ messages in thread
From: Jakob Oestergaard @ 2006-03-31  9:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel


Hi guys,

I just found out... Installed 2.6.16.1 (32-bit) on a spanking new dual
opteron 275 (dual-core) machine, and saw that my link jobs were taking
ages.

I narrowed it down a bit - these are the kernels I have tested:
2.6.13.5:  Good
2.6.14.7:  Good
2.6.15:    Poor
2.6.15.7:  Poor
2.6.16.1:  Poor

Sequential NFS I/O is good on all kernels. Only "ld" shows the problem.

On 2.6.14.7, I can run a large link job creating a 60 MB executable in
15.6 seconds wall-clock time.

On 2.6.15, the same link job takes 2 minutes 28 seconds.

This is almost 10 *times* longer.

Testing with tiobench, I can see no notable difference between the
kernels (!)   It seems that this is very specific to ld.  I am using GNU
ld version 2.15.

The NFS client mounts the working directory using NFS v3 over UDP with
default (32k) rsize/wsize.

Since this machine is not in production yet, I can experiment with
kernel patches on it - I would like to try and narrow this down even
further - any suggestions as to which patches to exclude/include will be
greatly appreciated.

Note; I did double-check all the common problems (ethernet problems,
mount options, ...).

-- 

 / jakob


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2006-03-31  9:48 NFS client (10x) performance regression 2.6.14.7 -> 2.6.15 Jakob Oestergaard
2006-03-31 11:22 ` NFS client regression, simple test program Jakob Oestergaard
2006-03-31 12:22 ` NFS client (10x) performance regression 2.6.14.7 -> 2.6.15 Trond Myklebust
2006-03-31 12:45   ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-03-31 13:06     ` Trond Myklebust
2006-03-31 13:21       ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-03-31 13:44         ` Trond Myklebust
2006-03-31 14:08           ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-03-31 14:21             ` Trond Myklebust
2006-03-31 14:35               ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-03-31 14:49                 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-03-31 14:57                   ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-03-31 15:04                     ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-03-31 15:24                       ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-03-31 16:35                         ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-03-31 18:52                           ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-03-31 15:55                 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-03-31 16:04                   ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-04-03 15:26                     ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-04-03 15:41                       ` Trond Myklebust
2006-04-03 15:45                         ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-04-04  9:22                           ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-04-24 22:03                             ` Trond Myklebust
2006-04-25  8:08                               ` Jakob Oestergaard

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