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Message-ID: <20070516195359.GE26766@think.oraclecorp.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 15:53:59 -0400
From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: filesystem benchmarking fun
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:33:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007 15:13:39 -0400
> Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > If that's still working then the problem will _probably_ be directory
> > > writeout. Possibly inodes, but they should be well-laid-out.
> > >
> > > Were you using dir_index? That might be screwing things up.
> >
> > Yes, dir_index. A quick test of mkfs.ext3 -O ^dir_index seems to still
> > have the problem. Even though the inodes are well laid out, is the
> > order they get written sane?
>
> Should be: it uses first-fit.
>
> > Looks like ext3 is just walking a list of
> > bh/jh, maybe we can just sort the silly thing?
>
> The IO scheduler is supposed to do that.
>
> But I don't know what's causing this.
I had high hopes of blaming cfq, but deadline gives the same results:
create dir kernel-0 222MB in 5.38 seconds (41.33 MB/s)
... [ ~30MB/s here ] ...
create dir kernel-7 222MB in 8.11 seconds (27.42 MB/s)
create dir kernel-8 222MB in 18.39 seconds (12.09 MB/s)
create dir kernel-9 222MB in 6.91 seconds (32.18 MB/s)
create dir kernel-10 222MB in 24.32 seconds (9.14 MB/s)
create dir kernel-11 222MB in 12.06 seconds (18.44 MB/s)
create dir kernel-12 222MB in 10.95 seconds (20.31 MB/s)
The good news is that if you let it run long enough, the times
stabilize. The bad news is:
create dir kernel-86 222MB in 15.85 seconds (14.03 MB/s)
create dir kernel-87 222MB in 28.67 seconds (7.76 MB/s)
create dir kernel-88 222MB in 18.12 seconds (12.27 MB/s)
create dir kernel-89 222MB in 19.77 seconds (11.25 MB/s)
echo 2048 > /sys/block/..../nr_requests didn't do it either.
I guess I'll have systemtap tell me more about the log flushing.
-chris
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