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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net>,
	sct@redhat.com, Con Kolivas <conman@kolivas.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] EXT3 vs EXT2 results with rmap14a and testing with  contest 0.34
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 23:32:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D896F73.5D1265B5@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020919061301.GB13929@clusterfs.com

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> ...
> > Kernel                                        Time                    CPU
> > 2.4.20-pre7-rmap14a-xfs-uml-shawn12d            325.39                82%
> > 2.4.20-pre7-rmap14a-xfs-uml-shawn12d            411.47                64%
> 
> I don't see this as hugely surprising.  ext3 uses more CPU than ext2.
> If you are using up the CPU doing other things, then naturally ext3
> will take a longer wall-clock time to complete the same tasks as ext2.

Yup.  But here the CPU load is less; obviously some more seeking
was done.  That's fairly normal for ext3 - it has to write the journal
as well as the filesystem....
 
> I know that Andrew has been doing a bunch of work to reduce ext3 CPU
> usage/locking/etc., but I think that is all in 2.5 kernels.
> 

I had a little patch.  Stephen is working on the big fix.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-19  6:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-19  1:18 EXT3 Testing w/ rmap14a with contest results Shawn Starr
2002-09-19  3:10 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-19  2:16   ` Shawn Starr
     [not found] ` <200209182140.30364.spstarr@sh0n.net>
     [not found]   ` <1032403983.3d893c0f8986b@kolivas.net>
2002-09-19  4:16     ` [BENCHMARK] EXT3 vs EXT2 results with rmap14a and testing with contest 0.34 Shawn Starr
2002-09-19  4:21       ` Shawn Starr
2002-09-19  6:13       ` Andreas Dilger
2002-09-19  5:44         ` Shawn Starr
2002-09-19  6:32         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-09-23 19:03           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-09-23 20:00             ` Shawn Starr
2002-09-23 20:05               ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-23 20:22               ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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