Re: cifs large write performance improvements to Samba

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:58:07AM -0800, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> >
> >>I have not seen anyone 
> >>doing that on Linux in an automated fashion (e.g running iozone 
> >>automated every time a new 2.6.x.rc on a half a dozen of the fs - simply 
> >>to verify that things had not gotten drastically worse on a particular 
> >>fs due to a bug or sideffect of a global VFS change).
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Yes, we definately need that.
> >
> > 
> >
> Andrew Morton is saying that iozone does things real apps don't do, that 
> is, it dirties mmap'd pages enough to swamp the machine.
> 
> Do you guys agree or disagree with that?
> 
> Reiser4 needs iozone optimization work which we haven't bothered with yet.

I'm not really familiar with iozone's behaviour, sorry. 

Steve, Andrew?

PS: Yep, another important part (to me at least) of all this automated performance 
testing effort is a detailed understanding of the tests being performed.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/