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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, "Alex\,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com>, "Li\,
	Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	"tytso\@mit.edu" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	"jaxboe\@fusionio.com" <jaxboe@fusionio.com>,
	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Chen\, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [performance bug] kernel building regression on 64 LCPUs machine
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:56:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x49hbbmpqbo.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinAeQMy-OoYYpbYeX=EjZ_-uT=67Ktk1PbE=A7_@mail.gmail.com> (Corrado Zoccolo's message of "Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:45:12 +0100")

Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
>> On Wed 23-02-11 16:24:47, Alex,Shi wrote:
>>> Though these patches can not totally recovered the problem, but they are
>>> quite helpful with ccache enabled situation. It increase 10% performance
>>> on 38-rc1 kernel.
>>  OK and what was the original performance drop with WRITE_SYNC change?
>>
>>> I have tried to enabled they to latest rc6 kernel but failed. the vmstat output is here:
>>> with patches:
>>  I'm attaching patches rebased on top of latest Linus's tree.
>> Corrado, could you possibly run your fsync-heavy tests so that we see
>> whether there isn't negative impact of my patches on your fsync-heavy
>> workload? Thanks.
> The workload was actually Jeff's, and the stalls that my change tried
> to mitigate showed up on his enterprise class storage. Adding him so
> he can test it.

Sorry for the late reply.  You can use either fs_mark or iozone to
generate an fsync-heavy workload.  The test I did was to mix this with a
sequential reader.  If you can point me at patches, I should be able to
test this.

Cheers,
Jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-01 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-19  1:55 [performance bug] kernel building regression on 64 LCPUs machine Alex,Shi
2011-01-19  2:03 ` Shaohua Li
2011-01-19 12:56   ` Jan Kara
2011-01-20  7:52     ` Alex,Shi
2011-01-20 15:16   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-01-21  7:17     ` Shaohua Li
2011-01-26  8:15     ` Shaohua Li
2011-02-12  9:21       ` Alex,Shi
2011-02-12 18:25         ` Corrado Zoccolo
2011-02-14  2:25           ` Alex,Shi
2011-02-15  1:10             ` Shaohua Li
2011-02-21 16:49               ` Jan Kara
2011-02-23  8:24                 ` Alex,Shi
2011-02-24 12:13                   ` Jan Kara
2011-02-25  0:44                     ` Alex Shi
2011-02-26 14:45                     ` Corrado Zoccolo
2011-03-01 19:56                       ` Jeff Moyer [this message]
2011-03-02  9:42                         ` Jan Kara
2011-03-02 16:13                           ` Jeff Moyer
2011-03-02 21:17                             ` Jan Kara
2011-03-02 21:20                               ` Jeff Moyer
2011-03-03  1:14                               ` Jeff Moyer
2011-03-04 15:32                                 ` Jan Kara
2011-03-04 15:40                                   ` Jeff Moyer
2011-03-04 15:50                                   ` Jeff Moyer
2011-03-04 18:27                                     ` Jeff Moyer
2011-03-22  7:38                                       ` Alex,Shi
2011-03-22 16:14                                         ` Jan Kara
2011-03-22 17:46                                           ` Jeff Moyer
2011-03-24  6:45                                             ` Alex,Shi
2011-03-28 19:48                                             ` Jan Kara
2011-01-19 14:32 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-01-20  2:12   ` Shaohua Li
2011-01-21  7:23 ` Corrado Zoccolo
2011-01-21  7:47   ` Alex,Shi
2011-01-21  7:52     ` Alex,Shi
2011-01-21  8:13       ` Corrado Zoccolo
2011-01-21  8:20   ` Shaohua Li

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