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Message-ID: <4A6E7253.9050906@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:36:51 +0800
From:	Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] IO scheduler based IO controller V6

Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 08:55:03AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:10:34AM +0800, Gui Jianfeng wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Here are some fio test results for IO Controller V6 built and not built.
>>> Iozone test results are also attached.
>>>
>> Hi Gui,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for some performance numbers. It seems to be a mixed chart.
>> Performance gains at some places and loss at others. I am curious about
>> that -7.0% for normal writes. Not sure what can contribute to that.
>>
> 
> Gui, can you also try with CONFIG_TRACK_ASYNC_CONTEXT=n and see if it improves
> buffered write performance.

  Hi Vivek,

  Ok, I'll do it, and i'll do the performance test for IO Controller V7, and post
  the results as soon as i get them.

> 
> Thanks
> Vivek
> 
>> What was the value of "fairness" parameter when you ran those tests? Can you
>> please set fairness = 0 and re-run the tests (if you have already not done so).
>>
>> By default fairness is set to 1 in V6. With fairness = 0, we should be very
>> close to existing CFQ behavior. If not, then we need to dive deeper and
>> see why variations are happening.
>>
>> Is it also possible to run the same tests with V7. 
>>
>> Thanks
>> Vivek
>>
>>> Arch: X86
>>> Mem:  1G
>>> Disk: 320G
>>> IO Scheduler: CFQ
>>>
>>> ============
>>> By normal read and write syscall.
>>>
>>> Block Size:32K
>>> File Size: 1G * 10
>>>
>>> Mode                    Normal read   |   Random read   |   Normal write   |   Random write | Direct read | Direct write
>>>
>>> 2.6.31-rc1              47,932KiB/s       3,566KiB/s        45,693KiB/s        8,501KiB/s     50,088KiB/s   43,473KiB/s
>>>
>>> 2.6.31-rc1-Vivek-V6     47,231KiB/s       3,411KiB/s        42,451KiB/s        8,714KiB/s     51,284KiB/s   42,341KiB/s
>>>
>>> Performance             -1.5%             -4.4%             -7.0%              +2.5%          +2.4%         -2.6%
>>>
>>> ============
>>>
>>> By mmap.
>>>
>>> Block Size:32K
>>> File Size: 500M
>>>
>>> Mode                    Normal read   |   Random read   |   Normal write   |   Random write
>>>
>>> 2.6.31-rc1              49,951KiB/s       3,245KiB/s        21,950KiB/s        2,771KiB/s
>>>
>>> 2.6.31-rc1-Vivek-V6     49,951KiB/s       3,154KiB/s        22,593KiB/s        2,648KiB/s
>>>
>>> Performance             0%                -2.8%             +2.9%              -4.4%
>>>
>>> ============
>>>  
>>> By libaio calls
>>>
>>> Block Size:32K
>>> File Size: 500M
>>>
>>> Mode                    Normal read   |  Random read   |   Normal write   |   Random write
>>>
>>> 2.6.31-rc1              49,447KiB/s       3,296KiB/s        57,519KiB/s        21,093KiB/s
>>>
>>> 2.6.31-rc1-Vivek-V6     50,142KiB/s       3,238KiB/s        57,791KiB/s        21,283KiB/s
>>>
>>> Performance             +1.4%             -1.8%             0%                 +0.1%
>>>
>>> ============
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Regards
Gui Jianfeng

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