On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:33:23AM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote: > > Thanks for sharing this with us. I have an rough idea that we can create > a project, which have some test cases to test the performance of file > system..... There is bitrotted benchmarking support into xfstests. I know some of the folks at SGI have wished that it could be nursed back to health, but having not looked at it, it's not clear to me whether it's better to try to add benchmarking capabilities into xfstests, or as a separate project. The real challenge with doing this is that it tends to be very system specific; if you change the amount of memory, number of CPU's, type of storage, etc., you'll get very different results. So any kind of system which is trying to detect performance regression really needs to be run on a specific system, and what's important is the delta from previous kernel versions. The other thing I'll note is that Eric's results were especially interesting because he had (in the past) access to a system with a combination of a fast storage (via a large RAID array), and a large number of CPU cores, which is useful for testing scalability. These days, a fast PCIe attached storage can someone replace a large RAID array, but most of us don't necessarily have access to a very large (4 or more CPU sockets) system. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
