On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 05:05:39PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:55:14PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 05:01:00AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > I'm pleased to announce I have a git tree up of my vfs scalability work. > > > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin.git > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin.git > > > > > > Branch vfs-scale-working > > > > With a production build (i.e. no lockdep, no xfs debug), I'll > > run the same fs_mark parallel create/unlink workload to show > > scalability as I ran here: > > > > http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2010-05/msg00329.html > > I've made a similar setup, 2s8c machine, but using 2GB ramdisk instead > of a real disk (I don't have easy access to a good disk setup ATM, but > I guess we're more interested in code above the block layer anyway). > > Made an XFS on /dev/ram0 with 16 ags, 64MB log, otherwise same config as > yours. I also tried dbench on this setup. 20 runs of dbench -t20 8 (that is a 20 second run, 8 clients). Numbers are throughput, higher is better: N Min Max Median Avg Stddev vanilla 20 2219.19 2249.43 2230.43 2230.9915 7.2528893 scale 20 2428.21 2490.8 2437.86 2444.111 16.668256 Difference at 95.0% confidence 213.119 +/- 8.22695 9.55268% +/- 0.368757% (Student's t, pooled s = 12.8537) vfs-scale is 9.5% or 210MB/s faster than vanilla. Like fs_mark, dbench has creat/unlink activity, so I hope rcu-inodes should not be such a problem in practice. In my creat/unlink benchmark, it is creating and destroying one inode repeatedly, which is the absolute worst case for rcu-inodes. Wheras in most real workloads would be creating and destroying many inodes, which is not such a dis advantage for rcu-inodes. Incidentally, XFS was by far the fastest "real" filesystem I tested on this workload. ext4 was around 1700MB/s (ext2 was around 3100MB/s and ramfs is 3350MB/s). -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>