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From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
To: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
	Chandan Babu R <chandanrlinux@gmail.com>,
	Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>,
	Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	lkp@lists.01.org, lkp@intel.com
Subject: Re: [LKP] Re: [xfs] bad77c375e: stress-ng.fallocate.ops_per_sec -10.0% regression
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 09:04:51 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211202220451.GT2206@rh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <96fa41bb-7e9f-ae47-bf34-accef5c36fa8@linux.intel.com>

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 02:46:06PM +0800, Xing Zhengjun wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
>    Do you have time to look at this? It still existed in v5.16-rc3. Thanks

AFAIC, it's a "don't care" issue.

The series of commits around this one:

> > > FYI, we noticed a -10.0% regression of
> > > stress-ng.fallocate.ops_per_sec due to commit:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > commit: bad77c375e8de6c776c848e443f7dc2d0d909be5 ("xfs: CIL
> > > checkpoint flushes caches unconditionally")
> > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master

changed how we manage FUA/cache flushes for the journal changed
performance across a wide range of workloads. Many went a lot
faster, some (like this one) went slightly slower. Overall it was a
net win, especially on storage stacks with really slow cache flushes
(e.g. dm-thinp) and workloads that do a lot of concurrent metadata
modification.

Overall, fallocate is not a performance critical path - it's a
slowpath because it serialises all IO to that file while the
fallocate call runs. Hence performance characteristics for fallocate
aren't really a major concern to begin with...

-Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
dchinner@redhat.com


      reply	other threads:[~2021-12-02 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-02  7:27 [xfs] bad77c375e: stress-ng.fallocate.ops_per_sec -10.0% regression kernel test robot
2021-09-03  7:40 ` Xing Zhengjun
2021-11-30  6:46   ` [LKP] " Xing Zhengjun
2021-12-02 22:04     ` Dave Chinner [this message]

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