From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264252AbTFCARQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:17:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264271AbTFCARQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:17:16 -0400 Received: from dyn-ctb-210-9-244-45.webone.com.au ([210.9.244.45]:6917 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264252AbTFCARP (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:17:15 -0400 Message-ID: <3EDBEC27.9070705@cyberone.com.au> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:30:31 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030327 Debian/1.3-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Con Kolivas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.5.70-mm2 with contest References: <200306030806.49885.kernel@kolivas.org> <20030602151644.06252b28.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030602151644.06252b28.akpm@digeo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: >Con Kolivas wrote: > >>io_load: >>Kernel [runs] Time CPU% Loads LCPU% Ratio >>2.5.69 4 343 22.7 120.5 19.8 4.29 >>2.5.69-mm3 4 319 24.5 105.3 18.1 4.04 >>2.5.69-mm5 4 137 56.9 49.6 19.0 1.73 >>2.5.69-mm6 4 150 52.0 53.4 18.7 1.92 >>2.5.70 5 326 21.5 112.9 18.7 4.13 >>2.5.70-mm2 4 115 67.0 42.0 19.1 1.47 >>large drop in time with one large file write >> > >We're hitting nearly 90% CPU here. That is really excellent. > Yes, the contest results have held up nicely after those big changes to AS which is good. It will be interesting to see what happens if we set the ext3 journal write paths as PF_SYNCWRITE. I'll try some tests a bit later today.