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From: Martin Sustrik <sustrik@fastmq.com>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Martin Lucina <mato@kotelna.sk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Higher than expected disk write(2) latency
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:34:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4867733A.3060203@fastmq.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48664F01.7060902@davidnewall.com>

David Newall wrote:
> Martin Lucina wrote:
>> Measurement of the write(2) time is performed using the TSC, so any
>> latency there is negligible.
> 
> Measuring each write is lavish and bound to impact the results.  To
> measure sustained throughput, get the time only at start and end, and
> divide the difference by the number of writes.

Hi,

We're using RDTSC to measure time, which takes ~30 nanoseconds to 
complete. I would say this is negligible given that latency of a write 
is 5 orders of magnitude higher.

Martin


  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-29 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-28 12:11 Higher than expected disk write(2) latency Martin Lucina
2008-06-28 13:11 ` Roger Heflin
2008-06-30 18:10   ` Martin Sustrik
2008-06-30 19:02     ` Roger Heflin
2008-06-30 22:20       ` Martin Sustrik
2008-07-01  0:11         ` Bernd Eckenfels
2008-07-02 16:48       ` Martin Sustrik
2008-07-02 18:15         ` Jeff Moyer
2008-07-02 18:20           ` Martin Sustrik
2008-07-04  3:16             ` David Dillow
2008-07-02 21:33         ` Roger Heflin
2008-06-28 14:47 ` David Newall
2008-06-29 11:34   ` Martin Sustrik [this message]
2008-07-10  5:27 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-10  8:12   ` Martin Sustrik
2008-07-10  8:14     ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-10 13:29       ` Chris Mason
2008-07-10 13:41         ` Martin Lucina
2008-07-10 14:01           ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-10 14:18             ` Chris Mason
2008-07-10  8:31     ` Alan Cox
2008-07-10 13:17       ` Martin Sustrik
2008-07-10 13:18         ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-11 15:17       ` Martin Sustrik
     [not found] <fa.OZMA74BZPX46rhnjz1am4hB786M@ifi.uio.no>
2008-06-30  6:41 ` Robert Hancock

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