On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:27:51PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Thu 10-04-14 21:05:52, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 08:41:37PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > Here are the changed stats before/after the patchset: > Thanks for gathering the numbers! > > > v3.14-rc8 ea87e2e7e0905325c58cf5643 > > --------------- ------------------------- > > 58.98 ~102% -73.2% 15.78 snb-drag/sysbench/fileio/600s-100%-1HDD-ext4-64G-1024-rndwr-sync > > 2215.64 ~61% -69.2% 682.57 snb-drag/sysbench/fileio/600s-100%-1HDD-ext4-64G-1024-seqrewr-sync > > 185.22 ~132% -93.6% 11.80 snb-drag/sysbench/fileio/600s-100%-1HDD-xfs-64G-1024-rndwr-sync > > 2459.84 ~67% -71.1% 710.15 TOTAL fileio.request_latency_max_ms > > > > v3.14-rc8 ea87e2e7e0905325c58cf5643 > > --------------- ------------------------- > > 6251 ~ 0% +4.0% 6503 snb-drag/sysbench/fileio/600s-100%-1HDD-ext4-64G-1024-seqrewr-sync > > 6532 ~ 0% +3.2% 6737 ~ 0% snb-drag/sysbench/fileio/600s-100%-1HDD-xfs-64G-1024-seqrewr-sync > > 6444 ~ 0% +1.7% 6554 ~ 0% snb-drag/sysbench/fileio/600s-100%-1HDD-xfs-64G-1024-seqwr-sync > > 19227 ~ 0% +3.0% 19795 TOTAL fileio.requests_per_sec > > > So fileio got better latency and higher requests per second. That's good. > ... > > > v3.14-rc8 ea87e2e7e0905325c58cf5643 > > --------------- ------------------------- > > 397285 ~ 0% -6.9% 369872 ~ 0% lkp-st02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-RAID5-cfq-xfs-10dd > > 359312 ~ 0% -5.5% 339685 lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-RAID5-cfq-xfs-100dd > > 404981 ~ 0% -4.5% 386775 lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-RAID5-cfq-xfs-10dd > > 1161579 ~ 0% -5.6% 1096334 TOTAL iostat.md0.wkB/s > So dd writing tests got lower throughput reported by iostat. I'll try to > have a look whether I can reproduce that. BTW: Does that also correspond to > longer time-to-completion of the dd test? Nope, there are no noticeable changes for time.elapsed_time: v3.14-rc8 ea87e2e7e0905325c58cf5643 --------------- ------------------------- 601.99 ~ 0% +0.0% 602.07 ~ 0% lkp-st02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-RAID5-cfq-xfs-10dd 630.92 ~ 0% -0.9% 625.24 lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-JBOD-cfq-ext4-100dd 615.98 ~ 0% -0.2% 614.74 lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-JBOD-cfq-ext4-10dd 610.58 ~ 0% -0.1% 609.92 ~ 0% lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-JBOD-cfq-ext4-1dd 608.90 ~ 0% +0.0% 609.09 lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-JBOD-cfq-xfs-100dd 604.46 ~ 0% +0.0% 604.66 lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-JBOD-cfq-xfs-10dd 603.67 ~ 0% +0.0% 603.70 lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-JBOD-cfq-xfs-1dd 606.65 ~ 0% +0.0% 606.93 lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-RAID5-cfq-ext4-100dd 606.31 ~ 0% +0.0% 606.49 lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-RAID5-cfq-ext4-10dd 602.97 ~ 0% -0.2% 601.89 lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-RAID5-cfq-ext4-1dd 603.92 ~ 0% -0.2% 603.01 lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-RAID5-cfq-xfs-100dd 602.66 ~ 0% -0.0% 602.63 lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-RAID5-cfq-xfs-10dd 602.19 ~ 0% +0.2% 603.52 lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-RAID5-cfq-xfs-1dd > > > v3.14-rc8 ea87e2e7e0905325c58cf5643 > > --------------- ------------------------- > > 1.2e+08 ~ 0% +4.0% 1.249e+08 snb-drag/sysbench/fileio/600s-100%-1HDD-ext4-64G-1024-seqrewr-sync > > 1.254e+08 ~ 0% +3.1% 1.294e+08 ~ 0% snb-drag/sysbench/fileio/600s-100%-1HDD-xfs-64G-1024-seqrewr-sync > > 1.237e+08 ~ 0% +1.7% 1.259e+08 ~ 0% snb-drag/sysbench/fileio/600s-100%-1HDD-xfs-64G-1024-seqwr-sync > > 3.692e+08 ~ 0% +3.0% 3.801e+08 TOTAL time.file_system_outputs > What's this measuring? It corresponds to the "File system outputs" line in the below output. It should be the number of dirtied pages. % /usr/bin/time -v sleep 1 Command being timed: "sleep 1" User time (seconds): 0.00 System time (seconds): 0.00 Percent of CPU this job got: 0% Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:01.00 Average shared text size (kbytes): 0 Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0 Average stack size (kbytes): 0 Average total size (kbytes): 0 Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 2608 Average resident set size (kbytes): 0 Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0 Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 213 Voluntary context switches: 2 Involuntary context switches: 1 Swaps: 0 File system inputs: 0 File system outputs: 0 Socket messages sent: 0 Socket messages received: 0 Signals delivered: 0 Page size (bytes): 4096 Exit status: 0 -- 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