From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: markw@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DBT-2 anticipatory scheduler and filesystem results with 2.6.1
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:55:56 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <400CB4DC.7090807@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040119203845.332cd5df.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
>markw@osdl.org wrote:
>
>> I ran some dbt-2 tests against 5 filesystems with 2.6.1-mm4 and 2.6.1. I
>> see a degradation from 0 to 7% in throughput.
>>
>
>-mm4 also had readahead changes which will adversely impact database-style
>workloads. I'd suggest that you revert
>
>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.1/2.6.1-mm4/broken-out/readahead-revert-lazy-readahead.patch
>
>and retest.
>
>We reverted lazy readahead because it broke NFS linear reads and was doing
>the wrong thing anyway. We need to come up with something else for
>database-style workloads.
>
>
Oh good. I'd be a bit surprised if it were due to an as-iosched.c change
that
caused the regression.
But there are changes in how new processes are handled, so if you have a lot
of io submitting processes being created, you might see a difference.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-20 4:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-20 0:05 DBT-2 anticipatory scheduler and filesystem results with 2.6.1 markw
2004-01-20 4:38 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-20 4:55 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-01-21 16:23 ` markw
2004-01-22 7:00 ` Nick Piggin
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