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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dramatic I/O slowdown after upgrading 2.6.32->3.0
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 10:58:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120402105850.270fe7f2@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F75E46E.2000503@msgid.tls.msk.ru>

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:50:54 +0400
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:

> I'm observing a dramatic slowdown of several hosts after upgrading
> from 2.6.32.y to 3.0.x i686 kernels (in both cases from kernel.org,
> on both cases the last version is relatively latest).
> 
> On 2.6.32 everything is fast.  On 3.0 the same operations which goes
> instantly takes ages to complete.
[...]
> What's the way to debug this issue?

There is a huge gap between those two kernels, so nobody is going to have
much luck guessing about what has changed.  A good first step might be to
do a binary search among the intermediate kernel releases to figure out
which one slowed things down for you.

jon

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-02 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-30 16:50 dramatic I/O slowdown after upgrading 2.6.32->3.0 Michael Tokarev
2012-04-02 16:58 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2012-04-05 23:29 ` Jan Kara
2012-04-06  4:45   ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-10  2:26     ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-10  6:00       ` dramatic I/O slowdown after upgrading 2.6.38->3.0+ Michael Tokarev
2012-04-10 15:13         ` Jan Kara
2012-04-10 19:25           ` Suresh Jayaraman
2012-04-10 19:51             ` Jan Kara
2012-04-11  0:20           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-04-11  9:40           ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-11 17:19             ` Mike Christie
2012-04-11 17:55               ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-11 18:28               ` Jan Kara

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