linux-ext4 - Re: jbd/jbd2 performance improvements

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Date:	Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:22:03 +0200
From:	Solofo.Ramangalahy@...l.net
To:	Arjan De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@...el.com>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: jbd/jbd2 performance improvements

Ric Wheeler writes:
 > Do you have any details on the test case that you ran that showed a 
 > clear improvement? What kind of storage & IO pattern did you use?

Is it possible to record latencytop output (like top batch mode) to
capture the highest latency during a test run?

Or how did you collect this:
>my reproducer is sadly very simple (claws-mail is my mail client that uses maildir)
>Process claws-mail (4896)                  Total: 2829.7 msec
>EXT3: Waiting for journal access                  2491.0 msec         88.4 %
>Writing back inodes                                160.9 msec          5.7 %
>synchronous write                                   78.8 msec          3.0 %
>is an example of such a trace (this is with patch, without patch the numbers are about 3x bigger)
>Waiting for journal access is "journal_get_write_access"
>Writing back inodes is "writeback_inodes"
>synchronous write is "do_sync_write"


-- 
solofo


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