On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:30:06PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > Hi Ted, > > We noticed increased xfstests 274's test speed and the first good > commit is 71d4f7d032149b935a26eb3ff85c6c837f3714e1 ("ext4: remove > metadata reservation checks"). > > test case: snb-drag/xfstests/4HDD-ext4-generic-slow2 > snb-drag is a Sandy Bridge PC with 6G memory. > > d5e03cbb0c88cd1 71d4f7d032149b935a26eb3ff > --------------- ------------------------- > 51 ± 2% -49.6% 25 ± 1% TOTAL xfstests.generic.274.seconds > 817 ± 1% -3.0% 792 ± 1% TOTAL time.elapsed_time > > xfstests.generic.274.seconds > > 60 ++---------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | | > 55 ++ .*..*.. *.. *.. | > | .*. . .. .. | > 50 *+.*..*. *..*..*..* *..*..*..*..* * | > | | > 45 ++ | > | | > 40 ++ | > | | > 35 ++ | > | | > 30 ++ | > | | > 25 O+-O--O--O--O--O---O--O--O--O--O--O--O--O--O--O--O--O---O--O--O--O--O--O > > > [*] bisect-good sample > [O] bisect-bad sample This is sweet, got another improvement: testbox/testcase/testparams: snb-drag/xfstests/4HDD-ext4-generic-mid d5e03cbb0c88cd1 71d4f7d032149b935a26eb3ff --------------- ------------------------- 45 ± 4% -50.2% 22 ± 7% xfstests.generic.256.seconds 7044859 ± 2% -7.0% 6553446 ± 0% time.minor_page_faults 36156 ± 2% -7.0% 33638 ± 0% time.involuntary_context_switches 171551 ± 1% -4.8% 163312 ± 0% time.voluntary_context_switches 436 ± 1% -5.7% 411 ± 0% time.elapsed_time time.voluntary_context_switches 176000 ++-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | * *.. *.. | 174000 ++ *.. .. : : *..* : * | 172000 ++ .. .*.* : : + : + | *..*..* *. : : + : + .* | 170000 ++ : .* * *. | 168000 ++ *. | | | 166000 ++ | 164000 ++ O O | | O O O O O O O O O O O 162000 ++ O O O O O O | 160000 O+ O O | | O O | 158000 ++-----------------------------------------------------------------+ xfstests.generic.256.seconds 60 ++-----------------------------*---------------------------------------+ | : : | 55 ++ : : | 50 ++ : : | | .*.. .* : .*.. | 45 *+ *.. .*..*...*..*..*. : .*. .*.. .* | | *. *. *. *. | 40 ++ | | | 35 ++ | 30 ++ | | | 25 ++ O O | O O O O O O O O O O O O O | 20 ++----O--------O---------O--O--O-----O-----O-----O---------------------O Thanks, Fengguang -- 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