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Date:	Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:08:39 +0200
From:	Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@....muni.cz>
To:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Cc:	Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@...jp.nec.com>,
	"Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>, agk@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: request baset device mapper in Linux

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 02:49:52PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> Does "with your patch" mean against 3.0.3 or the original 2.6.32 kernel?
> 
> If you apply the patch to the 3.0.3 kernel do you regain the performance?

Unfortunately, the patch does not help with 3.0.3 kernel

top looks like this:
   63 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   38  0.0   0:16.65 kswapd1                                      
   18 root      20   0     0    0    0 R   32  0.0   0:14.38 kworker/4:0                                  
   19 root      20   0     0    0    0 R   30  0.0   0:20.88 ksoftirqd/4                                  
  153 root      20   0     0    0    0 R   29  0.0   0:14.46 kworker/4:2                                  
   62 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   22  0.0   0:09.44 kswapd0                                      
16726 root      20   0  9484 1628  588 D   11  0.0   0:03.94 dd                                           
16721 root      20   0  9484 1628  588 D   11  0.0   0:03.87 dd                                           
16723 root      20   0  9484 1624  588 D   11  0.0   0:04.02 dd                                           
16725 root      20   0  9484 1628  588 D   11  0.0   0:03.89 dd                                           
16727 root      20   0  9484 1628  588 D   11  0.0   0:03.91 dd                                           
16728 root      20   0  9484 1624  588 D   11  0.0   0:03.89 dd                                           
16729 root      20   0  9484 1624  588 D   11  0.0   0:03.89 dd                                           
16724 root      20   0  9484 1624  588 D   11  0.0   0:03.93 dd                                           
16674 root      20   0  9484 1624  588 R    6  0.0   0:01.99 dd                                           
16685 root      20   0  9484 1624  588 D    6  0.0   0:02.00 dd                                           
16654 root      20   0  9484 1628  588 D    5  0.0   0:01.55 dd                                           
16662 root      20   0  9484 1588  588 D    5  0.0   0:01.53 dd                                           
16665 root      20   0  9484 1628  588 D    5  0.0   0:01.57 dd 

with patched 2.6.32, it looks like:
17330 root      20   0  9432 1752  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.34 dd                                           
17335 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.35 dd                                           
17316 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.34 dd                                           
17318 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.34 dd                                           
17322 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.34 dd                                           
17323 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.33 dd                                           
17324 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.34 dd                                           
17325 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.34 dd                                           
17326 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.33 dd                                           
17327 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.34 dd                                           
17328 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.34 dd                                           
17329 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.34 dd                                           
17333 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.34 dd                                           
17336 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.35 dd                                           
17344 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.32 dd                                           
17317 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.33 dd                                           
17319 root      20   0  9432 1752  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.34 dd                                           
17320 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.33 dd                                           
17321 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.33 dd                                           
17331 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 R    4  0.0   0:00.33 dd                                           
17332 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.34 dd                                           
17334 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:00.34 dd 

unpatched 2.6.32 looks like:
    4 root      20   0     0    0    0 R  100  0.0   0:25.60 ksoftirqd/0                                  
19325 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D   48  0.0   0:12.51 dd                                           
19294 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D   11  0.0   0:01.09 dd                                           
19323 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    4  0.0   0:01.02 dd                                           
19295 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    2  0.0   0:02.73 dd                                           
19305 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    2  0.0   0:00.53 dd                                           
19327 root      20   0  9432 1760  616 D    2  0.0   0:00.65 dd                                           
19328 root      20   0  9432 1752  616 D    2  0.0   0:00.60 dd                                           
19336 root      20   0  9432 1752  616 D    2  0.0   0:00.49 dd                                           
19350 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    2  0.0   0:00.55 dd                                           
19366 root      20   0  9432 1752  616 D    2  0.0   0:00.50 dd                                           
19292 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    2  0.0   0:00.65 dd                                           
19300 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    2  0.0   0:00.51 dd                                           
19303 root      20   0  9432 1752  616 D    2  0.0   0:00.59 dd                                           
19307 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    2  0.0   0:00.71 dd                                           
19318 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 R    2  0.0   0:00.46 dd                                           
19321 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    2  0.0   0:00.47 dd                                           
19332 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    2  0.0   0:00.49 dd                                           
19334 root      20   0  9432 1760  616 D    2  0.0   0:00.49 dd                                           
19339 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    2  0.0   0:00.47 dd                                           
19348 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    2  0.0   0:00.48 dd                                           
19355 root      20   0  9432 1756  616 D    2  0.0   0:00.47 dd             

-- 
Lukáš Hejtmánek
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