linux-kernel - Re: tiobench read 50% regression with 2.6.30-rc1

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Date:	Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:27:02 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tiobench read 50% regression with 2.6.30-rc1

On Wed, Apr 15 2009, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 14:14 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 10 2009, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 11:57 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Apr 09 2009, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> > > > > Comparing with 2.6.29's result, tiobench (read) has about 50% regression
> > > > > with 2.6.30-rc1 on all my machines. Bisect down to below patch.
> > > > > 
> > > > > b029195dda0129b427c6e579a3bb3ae752da3a93 is first bad commit
> > > > > commit b029195dda0129b427c6e579a3bb3ae752da3a93
> > > > > Author: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
> > > > > Date:   Tue Apr 7 11:38:31 2009 +0200
> 
> > > > 
> > > > It's not a huge surprise that we regressed there. I'll get this fixed up
> > > > next week. Can you I talk you into trying to change the 'quantum' sysfs
> > > > variable for the drive? It's in /sys/block/xxx/queue/iosched where xxx
> > > > is your drive(s). It's set to 4, if you could try progressively larger
> > > > settings and retest, that would help get things started.
> > > I tried 4,8,16,64,128 and didn't find result difference.
> > 
> > Can you try with this patch?
> The new patch does fix it.

Great, thanks for retesting.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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