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Message-ID: <20090922054913.GA27260@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:49:13 +0800 From: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: richard@....demon.co.uk, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, jens.axboe@...cle.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org Subject: regression in page writeback Hi, Commit d7831a0bdf06b9f722b947bb0c205ff7d77cebd8 causes disk io regression in my test. My system has 12 disks, each disk has two partitions. System runs fio sequence write on all partitions, each partion has 8 jobs. 2.6.31-rc1, fio gives 460m/s disk io 2.6.31-rc2, fio gives about 400m/s disk io. Revert the patch, speed back to 460m/s Under latest git: fio gives 450m/s disk io; If reverting the patch, the speed is 484m/s. With the patch, fio reports less io merge and more interrupts. My naive analysis is the patch makes balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr() limits write chunk to 8 pages and then soon go to sleep in balance_dirty_pages(), because most time the bdi_nr_reclaimable < bdi_thresh, and so when write the pages out, the chunk is 8 pages long instead of 4M long. Without the patch, thread can write 8 pages and then move some pages to writeback, and then continue doing write. The patch seems to break this. Unfortunatelly I can't figure out a fix for this issue, hopefully you have more ideas. Thanks, Shaohua -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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