Hi Kent, FYI, we noticed the below changes on git://evilpiepirate.org/~kent/linux-bcache.git for-jens commit 6a0608544e5672bd9a044c285119547eae41abe5 ("blk-lib.c: generic_make_request() handles large bios now") test case: snb-drag/sysbench/fileio/600s-100%-1HDD-ext4-64G-1024-seqrewr-sync 11541d5f5b7002b 6a0608544e5672bd9a044c285 --------------- ------------------------- 1885 ~60% -77.4% 426 ~ 7% TOTAL fileio.request_latency_max_ms 6258 ~ 0% -5.7% 5904 ~ 0% TOTAL fileio.requests_per_sec 26 ~ 1% +702.3% 211 ~ 8% TOTAL slabinfo.kmalloc-4096.num_slabs 217 ~ 1% +682.3% 1697 ~ 8% TOTAL slabinfo.kmalloc-4096.num_objs 26 ~ 1% +702.3% 211 ~ 8% TOTAL slabinfo.kmalloc-4096.active_slabs 211 ~ 2% +701.5% 1697 ~ 8% TOTAL slabinfo.kmalloc-4096.active_objs 2 ~ 0% -50.0% 1 ~ 0% TOTAL vmstat.procs.b 2236 ~ 0% +63.6% 3659 ~ 3% TOTAL slabinfo.kmalloc-256.num_objs 2217 ~ 0% +63.4% 3623 ~ 3% TOTAL slabinfo.kmalloc-256.active_objs 3274 ~ 1% +47.8% 4837 ~ 2% TOTAL proc-vmstat.nr_slab_unreclaimable 13096 ~ 1% +47.7% 19350 ~ 2% TOTAL meminfo.SUnreclaim 62558204 ~ 5% -30.7% 43379766 ~ 1% TOTAL cpuidle.C3-SNB.time 91031 ~ 4% -29.4% 64253 ~ 2% TOTAL cpuidle.C1E-SNB.usage 34092 ~ 2% -17.6% 28085 ~ 1% TOTAL cpuidle.C3-SNB.usage 2656 ~ 2% -15.0% 2258 ~ 2% TOTAL proc-vmstat.kswapd_high_wmark_hit_quickly 266339 ~ 2% +14.2% 304129 ~ 0% TOTAL cpuidle.C6-SNB.usage 21899 ~ 2% +9.6% 23992 ~ 2% TOTAL interrupts.RES 20 ~ 0% -8.0% 18 ~ 2% TOTAL time.percent_of_cpu_this_job_got 3430189 ~ 0% -5.9% 3226430 ~ 0% TOTAL time.voluntary_context_switches 117 ~ 0% -6.0% 110 ~ 0% TOTAL time.system_time 11691 ~ 0% -5.6% 11042 ~ 0% TOTAL vmstat.system.cs 711 ~ 0% +4.4% 742 ~ 0% TOTAL iostat.sda.await 712 ~ 0% +4.4% 743 ~ 0% TOTAL iostat.sda.w_await 99142 ~ 0% -2.2% 96963 ~ 0% TOTAL iostat.sda.wkB/s 99257 ~ 0% -2.2% 97110 ~ 0% TOTAL vmstat.io.bo 139 ~ 0% +1.7% 141 ~ 0% TOTAL iostat.sda.avgqu-sz fileio.requests_per_sec 6300 ++----------------------------------------------------------*-------+ 6250 *+.*.. .*.*..*..*..*..*..*.*..*..*..*..*..*.*..*..*..*..*. *..*..* | *. | 6200 ++ | 6150 ++ | | | 6100 ++ | 6050 ++ | 6000 ++ O | | O O | 5950 O+ O O | 5900 ++ O O O O O | | O O O O O O | 5850 ++ O O O | 5800 ++------------------------------------------------------------------+ fileio.request_latency_max_ms 4500 ++------------------------------------------------------------------+ | * | 4000 ++ : | 3500 ++ :: | | : : | 3000 ++ * : : | 2500 ++ *.. + : * : : | | + + : + : : : | 2000 ++ .*.. + * : + : : : | 1500 ++ * *.. *.. .* * : .*..*..*..*..: : .* *.. .. .. .* *. : *. | 1000 ++ .* * *. * | 500 ++ *. O | O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O | 0 ++------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thanks, Fengguang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html