linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

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Message-ID: <213736.67377.qm@web32614.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:09:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Martin Knoblauch <knobi@...bisoft.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	wfg@...l.ustc.edu.cn, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	riel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

----- Original Message ----
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: spamtrap@...bisoft.de; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl; wfg@...l.ustc.edu.cn; torvalds@...ux-foundation.org; riel@...hat.com
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 9:33:40 PM
> Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions
> 
> 
> * Andrew Morton  wrote:
> 
> > > > dd1 - copy 16 GB from /dev/zero to local FS
> > > > dd1-dir - same, but using O_DIRECT for output
> > > > dd2/dd2-dir - copy 2x7.6 GB in parallel from /dev/zero to
> local
> 
 FS
> > > > dd3/dd3-dir - copy 3x5.2 GB in parallel from /dev/zero lo
> local
> 
 FS
> > > > net1 - copy 5.2 GB from NFS3 share to local FS
> > > > mix3 - copy 3x5.2 GB from /dev/zero to local disk and two
> NFS3
> 
 shares
> > > > 
> > > >  I did the numbers for 2.6.19.2, 2.6.22.6 and 2.6.24-rc1.
> All
> 
 units 
> > > >  are MB/sec.
> > > > 
> > > > test           2.6.19.2     2.6.22.6    2.6.24.-rc1
> > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > dd1                  28           50             96
> > > > dd1-dir              88           88             86
> > > > dd2              2x16.5         2x11         2x44.5
> > > > dd2-dir            2x44         2x44           2x43
> > > > dd3               3x9.8        3x8.7           3x30
> > > > dd3-dir          3x29.5       3x29.5         3x28.5
> > > > net1              30-33        50-55          37-52
> > > > mix3              17/32        25/50         
> 96/35
> 
 (disk/combined-network)
> > > 
> > > wow, really nice results!
> > 
> > Those changes seem suspiciously large to me.  I wonder if
> there's
> 
 less 
> > physical IO happening during the timed run, and correspondingly more 
> > afterwards.
> 
> so a final 'sync' should be added to the test too, and the time
> it
> 
 takes 
> factored into the bandwidth numbers?
> 

 One of the reasons I do 15 GB transfers is to make sure that I am well above the possible page cache size. And of course I am doing a final sync to finish the runs :-) The sync is also running faster in 2.6.24-rc1.

 If I factor it in the results for dd1/dd3 are:

test                2.6.19.2        2.6.22.6    2.6.24-rc1
sync time       18sec            19sec      6sec
dd1                     27.5                 47.5        92
dd3                     3x9.1              3x8.5       3x29

So basically including the sync time make 2.6.24-rc1 even more promosing. Now, I know that my benchmarks numbers are crude and show only a very small aspect of system performance. But - it is an aspect I care about a lot. And those benchmarks match my use-case pretty good.

Cheers
Martin





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