On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 02:46:31PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > Ok, I haven't tested that yet, but I did put together a f20 machine on > bare metal to act as a server. Here are some results from a test that > forks 128 child processes and has each one create and close 1024 files. > Client is 3.14.8-200.fc20.x86_64 and using NFSv4.1: > > With a stock Fedora kernel on the server running 3.14.8-200.fc20.x86_64: > > $ time sudo ./opentest -n 128 -l 1024 /mnt/palma > > real 59m5.022s > user 0m1.401s > sys 0m17.561s > > > ...with the patched kernel 3.16.0-rc2.jlayton.1+ (basically Bruce's > for-3.17 branch with the rest of my patches piled on): > > $ time sudo ./opentest -n 128 -l 1024 /mnt/palma > > real 4m19.060s > user 0m1.259s > sys 0m13.059s > > ...so around a factor of 13x speedup on parallel creates. Again, this > is not a terribly scientific benchmark, but it does suggest that this > patchset helps immensely. Neat-o. It might also be interesting to compare with NFSv3? I wonder what a first good test of the smp scalability would be. --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html