From: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, diegocg@gmail.com,
Voluspa <lista1@comhem.se>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] readahead: initial method - expected read size - fix fastcall
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 15:34:15 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <349406446.10828@ustc.edu.cn> (raw)
Message-ID: <20060604073415.GB5405@mail.ustc.edu.cn> (raw)
Remove 'fastcall' directive for function readahead_close().
It has drawn concerns from Andrew Morton. Now I have some benchmarks
on it, and proved it as a _false_ optimization.
The tests are simple runs of the following command over _cached_ dirs:
time find / > /dev/null
Table of summary(averages):
user sys cpu total
fastcall: 1.236 4.39 89% 6.2936
non-fastcall: 1.18 4.14166667 92% 5.75416667
stock: 1.25833333 4.14666667 93.3% 5.75866667
-----------
Detailed outputs:
readahead patched kernel with fastcall:
noglob find / > /dev/null 1.21s user 4.58s system 90% cpu 6.378 total
noglob find / > /dev/null 1.25s user 4.47s system 86% cpu 6.623 total
noglob find / > /dev/null 1.23s user 4.36s system 90% cpu 6.173 total
noglob find / > /dev/null 1.25s user 4.33s system 92% cpu 6.067 total
noglob find / > /dev/null 1.24s user 4.21s system 87% cpu 6.227 total
readahead patched kernel without fastcall:
noglob find / > /dev/null 1.21s user 4.46s system 95% cpu 5.962 total
noglob find / > /dev/null 1.26s user 4.58s system 94% cpu 6.142 total
noglob find / > /dev/null 1.10s user 3.80s system 86% cpu 5.661 total
noglob find / > /dev/null 1.13s user 3.98s system 95% cpu 5.355 total
noglob find / > /dev/null 1.18s user 4.00s system 89% cpu 5.805 total
noglob find / > /dev/null 1.22s user 4.03s system 93% cpu 5.600 total
stock kernel:
noglob find / > /dev/null 1.22s user 4.24s system 94% cpu 5.803 total
noglob find / > /dev/null 1.31s user 4.21s system 95% cpu 5.784 total
noglob find / > /dev/null 1.27s user 4.24s system 97% cpu 5.676 total
noglob find / > /dev/null 1.34s user 4.21s system 94% cpu 5.844 total
noglob find / > /dev/null 1.26s user 4.08s system 89% cpu 5.935 total
noglob find / > /dev/null 1.15s user 3.90s system 91% cpu 5.510 total
-----------
Similar regression has also been found by Voluspa <lista1@comhem.se>:
> "cd /usr ; time find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \;"
>
> 2.6.17-rc5 ------- 2.6.17-rc5-ar
>
> real 21m21.009s -- 21m37.663s
> user 3m20.784s -- 3m20.701s
> sys 6m34.261s -- 6m41.735s
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
---
--- linux-2.6.17-rc5-mm2.orig/include/linux/mm.h
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc5-mm2/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@ unsigned long page_cache_readahead(struc
void handle_ra_miss(struct address_space *mapping,
struct file_ra_state *ra, pgoff_t offset);
unsigned long max_sane_readahead(unsigned long nr);
-void fastcall readahead_close(struct file *file);
+void readahead_close(struct file *file);
unsigned long
page_cache_readahead_adaptive(struct address_space *mapping,
struct file_ra_state *ra, struct file *filp,
--- linux-2.6.17-rc5-mm2.orig/mm/readahead.c
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc5-mm2/mm/readahead.c
@@ -1943,7 +1943,7 @@ void fastcall readahead_cache_hit(struct
* The resulted `ra_expect_bytes' answers the question of:
* How many pages are expected to be read on start-of-file?
*/
-void fastcall readahead_close(struct file *file)
+void readahead_close(struct file *file)
{
struct inode *inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;
struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
next reply other threads:[~2006-06-04 7:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20060604073415.GB5405@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-04 7:34 ` Fengguang Wu [this message]
2006-06-04 9:07 ` [PATCH] readahead: initial method - expected read size - fix fastcall Andrew Morton
2006-06-04 9:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-05 1:17 ` Voluspa
2006-06-05 8:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
[not found] ` <20060606022606.GA6071@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-06 2:26 ` Fengguang Wu
2006-06-08 7:31 ` Voluspa
[not found] ` <20060608075722.GA5515@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-08 7:57 ` Fengguang Wu
[not found] ` <20060606025728.GA6365@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-06 2:57 ` Fengguang Wu
2006-06-08 7:43 ` Voluspa
[not found] ` <20060608081352.GB5515@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-08 8:13 ` Fengguang Wu
2006-06-08 8:28 ` Voluspa
[not found] ` <20060608085055.GA5917@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-08 8:50 ` Fengguang Wu
2006-06-08 10:04 ` Voluspa
[not found] ` <20060604121328.GA6686@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-04 12:13 ` [PATCH] readahead: call scheme - fix fastcall readahead_cache_hit() Fengguang Wu
2006-05-30 3:36 Adaptive Readahead V14 - statistics question Voluspa
[not found] ` <20060530064026.GA4950@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-30 6:40 ` Wu Fengguang
2006-05-30 16:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-31 21:06 ` Diego Calleja
2006-05-31 21:50 ` Voluspa
[not found] ` <20060601055143.GA5216@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-01 5:51 ` Fengguang Wu
2006-06-01 6:35 ` Voluspa
2006-06-08 8:04 ` Voluspa
[not found] ` <20060608113731.GA5813@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-08 11:37 ` adaptive readahead overheads Fengguang Wu
2006-06-08 12:25 ` Voluspa
[not found] ` <20060608123900.GA6885@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-08 12:39 ` Fengguang Wu
2006-06-08 13:05 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-08 14:00 ` Jens Axboe
[not found] ` <448493E9.9030203@samwel.tk>
[not found] ` <20060606033436.GB6071@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-06 3:34 ` Adaptive Readahead V14 - statistics question Wu Fengguang
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