Re: [RFC PATCH] cfq-iosched: IOPS mode for group scheduling and newgroup_idle tunable
From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Wed Jul 28 2010 - 16:22:35 EST
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:06:13AM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 23.07.2010, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>
> > Anyway, for fs_mark problem, can you give following patch a try.
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/113061/
>
> Ported it to 2.6.35-rc6, and these are my results using the same fs_mark
> call as before:
>
> slice_idle = 0
>
> FSUse% Count Size Files/sec App Overhead
> 28 1000 65536 241.6 39574
> 28 2000 65536 231.1 39939
> 28 3000 65536 230.4 39722
> 28 4000 65536 243.2 39646
> 28 5000 65536 227.0 39892
> 28 6000 65536 224.1 39555
> 28 7000 65536 228.2 39761
> 28 8000 65536 235.3 39766
> 28 9000 65536 237.3 40518
> 28 10000 65536 225.7 39861
> 28 11000 65536 227.2 39441
>
>
> slice_idle = 8
>
> FSUse% Count Size Files/sec App Overhead
> 28 1000 65536 502.2 30545
> 28 2000 65536 407.6 29406
> 28 3000 65536 381.8 30152
> 28 4000 65536 438.1 30038
> 28 5000 65536 447.5 30477
> 28 6000 65536 422.0 29610
> 28 7000 65536 383.1 30327
> 28 8000 65536 415.3 30102
> 28 9000 65536 397.6 31013
> 28 10000 65536 401.4 29201
> 28 11000 65536 408.8 29720
> 28 12000 65536 391.2 29157
>
> Huh...there's quite a difference! It's definitely the slice_idle settings
> which affect the results here.
> Besides, this patch gives noticeably bad desktop interactivity on my system.
Heinz,
I also ran linus torture test and fsync-tester on ext3 file system on my
SATA disk and with this corrado's fsync patch applied in fact I see better
results.
2.6.35-rc6 kernel
=================
fsync time: 1.2109
fsync time: 2.7531
fsync time: 1.3770
fsync time: 2.0839
fsync time: 1.4243
fsync time: 1.3211
fsync time: 1.1672
fsync time: 2.8345
fsync time: 1.4798
fsync time: 0.0170
fsync time: 0.0199
fsync time: 0.0204
fsync time: 0.2794
fsync time: 1.3525
fsync time: 2.2679
fsync time: 1.4629
fsync time: 1.5234
fsync time: 1.5693
fsync time: 1.7263
fsync time: 3.5739
fsync time: 1.4114
fsync time: 1.5517
fsync time: 1.5675
fsync time: 1.3818
fsync time: 1.8127
fsync time: 1.6394
2.6.35-rc6-fsync
================
fsync time: 3.8638
fsync time: 0.1209
fsync time: 2.3390
fsync time: 3.1501
fsync time: 0.1348
fsync time: 0.0879
fsync time: 1.0642
fsync time: 0.2153
fsync time: 0.1166
fsync time: 0.2744
fsync time: 0.1227
fsync time: 0.2072
fsync time: 0.0666
fsync time: 0.1818
fsync time: 0.2170
fsync time: 0.1814
fsync time: 0.0501
fsync time: 0.0198
fsync time: 0.1950
fsync time: 0.2099
fsync time: 0.0877
fsync time: 0.8291
fsync time: 0.0821
fsync time: 0.0777
fsync time: 0.0258
fsync time: 0.0574
fsync time: 0.1152
fsync time: 1.1466
fsync time: 0.2349
fsync time: 0.9589
fsync time: 1.1013
fsync time: 0.1681
fsync time: 0.0902
fsync time: 0.2052
fsync time: 0.0673
I also did "time firefox &" testing to see how long firefox takes to
launch when linus torture test is running and without patch it took
around 20 seconds and with patch it took around 17 seconds.
So to me above test results suggest that this patch does not worsen
the performance. In fact it helps. (at least on ext3 file system.)
Not sure why are you seeing different results with XFS.
Thanks
Vivek
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