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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 21:28:02 +0800
From: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>
To: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@...jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>,
ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ext3: Reduce calling ext3_mark_inode_dirty() for speedup
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Kazuya Mio <k-mio@...jp.nec.com> wrote:
> 2012/02/03 7:36, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>>>
>>> filesystem time(sec) call extX_mark_inode_dirty(times)
>>> ---
>>> ext3 220.5 50,338,104
>>> ext3 (patched) 196.3 25,169,658
>>> ext4 (*1) 190.3 28,465,799
>>> ext4 (*2) 201.5 27,963,473
>>> ext4 (default) 223.3 14,026,118
>>>
>>> *1 disable ext4-specific options (delalloc, extent, and so on)
>>> *2 disable only delalloc option
>>
>> This shows that ext4 with extents+delalloc is _slower_ than ext3, which
>> is very strange. In other similar tests of write performance (see
>
>
> One more thing is that ext4+delalloc is slower than ext4+nodelalloc.
And according to the data, maybe ext4+extent is also slower than ext4+noextent.
What's the size of the fs? and what kind of the tested device?
Yongqiang.
>
>
>> http://downloads.linux.hp.com/~enw/ext4/3.2/large_file_creates.html,
>> showing multi-threaded 1GB file writes) ext4 is much faster than ext3.
>
>
> I guess write buffer size of my test is different from ffsb's one.
> My test calls write systemcall every time one block is allocated,
> so it is close to the stress test I think.
>
>
>> Looking at your original email, is ext4 being tested on a RHEL 5.5
>> (2.6.18) kernel, or a more recent kernel? It would be more useful
>> to run this on a more modern kernel, since the ext4 code backported
>> to RHEL5 was barely supporting delalloc at all, if I remember correctly.
>
>
> I tested on the recent kernel (3.3-rc1).
> I also tested on RHEL5.5, and its result showed that ext3 was much slower
> than
> the recent kernel's one.
>
> filesystem time(sec)
> ---
> ext3(RHEL5.5) 438.6
> ext3(3.3-rc1) 220.5
>
> Regards,
> Kazuya Mio
>
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