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Message-ID: <x49iqc42t8r.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:32:04 -0500
From:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
To:	Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfq-iosched: reduce write depth only if sync was delayed

Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@...il.com> writes:

> Hi Jeff,
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com> wrote:
>> Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@...il.com> writes:
>>
>>> The numbers look good. Now, there is no penalty in having low_latency
>>> set for sequential writes, and just a small penalty for random ones.
>>> The fact that random reads are faster with low_latency set is interesting.
>>> Is the test is running with your patched tiobench (so that the number
>>> of random operations is comparable with sequential ones)?
>>
>> No, I forgot all about that.  The number of random operations defaults
>> to 4000, which is pretty low.  I'll re-run the tests with a number
>> comparable to the sequential runs.  Sorry about that.
>>
> N.P.
> if you have time, can you also re-run the test changing:
> iosched/fifo_expire_async to 8 ?
> I hope that reducing the expire_async, will make cfq quicker at switching
> between the different threads, allowing more parallelism for seq
> writers on your hw.
> If this is the case, I think I can try to estimate the
> fifo_expire_async in the autotuning patch.

Sorry this took so long.  I've been rather busy of late.

Cheers,
Jeff

low_latency=1, fifo_expire_async=8

Unit information
================
File size = megabytes
Blk Size  = bytes
Rate      = megabytes per second
CPU%      = percentage of CPU used during the test
Latency   = milliseconds
Lat%      = percent of requests that took longer than X seconds
CPU Eff   = Rate divided by CPU% - throughput per cpu load

Sequential Reads
                              File  Blk   Num                   Avg      Maximum      Lat%     Lat%    CPU
Identifier                    Size  Size  Thr   Rate  (CPU%)  Latency    Latency      >2s      >10s    Eff
---------------------------- ------ ----- ---  ------ ------ --------- -----------  -------- -------- -----
2.6.32                        8192  65536   8   88.39 89.74%    16.388     2032.62   0.00000  0.00000    98
2.6.32                        8192  65536  16   90.77 185.3%    32.213     2175.99   0.00000  0.00000    49

Random Reads
                              File  Blk   Num                   Avg      Maximum      Lat%     Lat%    CPU
Identifier                    Size  Size  Thr   Rate  (CPU%)  Latency    Latency      >2s      >10s    Eff
---------------------------- ------ ----- ---  ------ ------ --------- -----------  -------- -------- -----
2.6.32                        8192  65536   8   19.62 25.74%    71.827     3397.26   0.00000  0.00000    76
2.6.32                        8192  65536  16   23.82 55.01%   103.361     4075.53   0.00000  0.00000    43

Sequential Writes
                              File  Blk   Num                   Avg      Maximum      Lat%     Lat%    CPU
Identifier                    Size  Size  Thr   Rate  (CPU%)  Latency    Latency      >2s      >10s    Eff
---------------------------- ------ ----- ---  ------ ------ --------- -----------  -------- -------- -----
2.6.32                        8192  65536   8  108.28 1007.%    12.984     5643.55   0.00076  0.00000    11
2.6.32                        8192  65536  16  112.40 2014.%    25.430     8592.98   0.00839  0.00000     6

Random Writes
                              File  Blk   Num                   Avg      Maximum      Lat%     Lat%    CPU
Identifier                    Size  Size  Thr   Rate  (CPU%)  Latency    Latency      >2s      >10s    Eff
---------------------------- ------ ----- ---  ------ ------ --------- -----------  -------- -------- -----
2.6.32                        8192  65536   8   63.94 337.7%    22.885     6047.22   0.00076  0.00000    19
2.6.32                        8192  65536  16   61.94 662.5%    46.997    12759.69   0.15411  0.00000     9


low_latency=0, fifo_expire_async=8

Unit information
================
File size = megabytes
Blk Size  = bytes
Rate      = megabytes per second
CPU%      = percentage of CPU used during the test
Latency   = milliseconds
Lat%      = percent of requests that took longer than X seconds
CPU Eff   = Rate divided by CPU% - throughput per cpu load

Sequential Reads
                              File  Blk   Num                   Avg      Maximum      Lat%     Lat%    CPU
Identifier                    Size  Size  Thr   Rate  (CPU%)  Latency    Latency      >2s      >10s    Eff
---------------------------- ------ ----- ---  ------ ------ --------- -----------  -------- -------- -----
2.6.32                        8192  65536   8   89.13 88.30%    15.872     3101.39   0.00000  0.00000   101
2.6.32                        8192  65536  16   86.78 161.7%    30.794     4909.02   0.00000  0.00000    54

Random Reads
                              File  Blk   Num                   Avg      Maximum      Lat%     Lat%    CPU
Identifier                    Size  Size  Thr   Rate  (CPU%)  Latency    Latency      >2s      >10s    Eff
---------------------------- ------ ----- ---  ------ ------ --------- -----------  -------- -------- -----
2.6.32                        8192  65536   8   20.21 26.64%    69.863     4285.42   0.00000  0.00000    76
2.6.32                        8192  65536  16   20.10 52.75%   139.761     5986.94   0.00076  0.00000    38

Sequential Writes
                              File  Blk   Num                   Avg      Maximum      Lat%     Lat%    CPU
Identifier                    Size  Size  Thr   Rate  (CPU%)  Latency    Latency      >2s      >10s    Eff
---------------------------- ------ ----- ---  ------ ------ --------- -----------  -------- -------- -----
2.6.32                        8192  65536   8  108.74 1020.%    13.070     5331.78   0.00076  0.00000    11
2.6.32                        8192  65536  16  112.18 2020.%    25.559     7903.16   0.00992  0.00000     6

Random Writes
                              File  Blk   Num                   Avg      Maximum      Lat%     Lat%    CPU
Identifier                    Size  Size  Thr   Rate  (CPU%)  Latency    Latency      >2s      >10s    Eff
---------------------------- ------ ----- ---  ------ ------ --------- -----------  -------- -------- -----
2.6.32                        8192  65536   8   64.53 337.8%    22.671     5388.77   0.00000  0.00000    19
2.6.32                        8192  65536  16   61.75 668.9%    47.265    13271.37   0.12894  0.00000     9
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