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Message-ID: <20120817142526.GA1059@localhost>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:25:26 +0800
From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Marti Raudsepp <marti@...fo.org>,
Kernel hackers <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
ext4 hackers <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, maze@...gle.com,
"Shi, Alex" <alex.shi@...el.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux RAID <linux-raid@...r.kernel.org>, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>,
Li Shaohua <shli@...ionio.com>
Subject: Re: ext4 write performance regression in 3.6-rc1 on RAID0/5
[CC md list]
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:40:39AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 02:09:15PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > Ted,
> >
> > I find ext4 write performance dropped by 3.3% on average in the
> > 3.6-rc1 merge window. xfs and btrfs are fine.
> >
> > Two machines are tested. The performance regression happens in the
> > lkp-nex04 machine, which is equipped with 12 SSD drives. lkp-st02 does
> > not see regression, which is equipped with HDD drives. I'll continue
> > to repeat the tests and report variations.
>
> Hmm... I've checked out the commits in "git log v3.5..v3.6-rc1 --
> fs/ext4 fs/jbd2" and I don't see anything that I would expect would
> cause that. The are the lock elimination changes for Direct I/O
> overwrites, but that shouldn't matter for your tests which are
> measuring buffered writes, correct?
>
> Is there any chance you could do me a favor and do a git bisect
> restricted to commits involving fs/ext4 and fs/jbd2?
I noticed that the regressions all happen in the RAID0/RAID5 cases.
So it may be some interactions between the RAID/ext4 code?
I'll try to get some ext2/3 numbers, which should have less changes on the fs side.
wfg@bee /export/writeback% ./compare -g ext4 lkp-nex04/*/*-{3.5.0,3.6.0-rc1+}
3.5.0 3.6.0-rc1+
------------------------ ------------------------
720.62 -1.5% 710.16 lkp-nex04/JBOD-12HDD-thresh=1000M/ext4-100dd-1-3.5.0
706.04 -0.0% 705.86 lkp-nex04/JBOD-12HDD-thresh=1000M/ext4-10dd-1-3.5.0
702.86 -0.2% 701.74 lkp-nex04/JBOD-12HDD-thresh=1000M/ext4-1dd-1-3.5.0
702.41 -0.0% 702.06 lkp-nex04/JBOD-12HDD-thresh=1000M/ext4-1dd-2-3.5.0
779.52 +6.5% 830.11 lkp-nex04/JBOD-12HDD-thresh=100M/ext4-100dd-1-3.5.0
646.70 +4.9% 678.59 lkp-nex04/JBOD-12HDD-thresh=100M/ext4-10dd-1-3.5.0
704.49 +2.6% 723.00 lkp-nex04/JBOD-12HDD-thresh=100M/ext4-1dd-1-3.5.0
704.21 +1.2% 712.47 lkp-nex04/JBOD-12HDD-thresh=100M/ext4-1dd-2-3.5.0
705.26 -1.2% 696.61 lkp-nex04/JBOD-12HDD-thresh=8G/ext4-100dd-1-3.5.0
703.37 +0.1% 703.76 lkp-nex04/JBOD-12HDD-thresh=8G/ext4-10dd-1-3.5.0
701.66 -0.1% 700.83 lkp-nex04/JBOD-12HDD-thresh=8G/ext4-1dd-1-3.5.0
701.17 +0.0% 701.36 lkp-nex04/JBOD-12HDD-thresh=8G/ext4-1dd-2-3.5.0
675.08 -10.5% 604.29 lkp-nex04/RAID0-12HDD-thresh=1000M/ext4-100dd-1-3.5.0
676.52 -2.7% 658.38 lkp-nex04/RAID0-12HDD-thresh=1000M/ext4-10dd-1-3.5.0
512.70 +4.0% 533.22 lkp-nex04/RAID0-12HDD-thresh=1000M/ext4-1dd-1-3.5.0
524.61 -0.3% 522.90 lkp-nex04/RAID0-12HDD-thresh=1000M/ext4-1dd-2-3.5.0
709.76 -15.7% 598.44 lkp-nex04/RAID0-12HDD-thresh=100M/ext4-100dd-1-3.5.0
681.39 -2.1% 667.25 lkp-nex04/RAID0-12HDD-thresh=100M/ext4-10dd-1-3.5.0
524.16 +0.8% 528.25 lkp-nex04/RAID0-12HDD-thresh=100M/ext4-1dd-2-3.5.0
699.77 -19.2% 565.54 lkp-nex04/RAID0-12HDD-thresh=8G/ext4-100dd-1-3.5.0
675.79 -1.9% 663.17 lkp-nex04/RAID0-12HDD-thresh=8G/ext4-10dd-1-3.5.0
484.84 -7.4% 448.83 lkp-nex04/RAID0-12HDD-thresh=8G/ext4-1dd-1-3.5.0
470.40 -3.2% 455.31 lkp-nex04/RAID0-12HDD-thresh=8G/ext4-1dd-2-3.5.0
167.97 -38.7% 103.03 lkp-nex04/RAID5-12HDD-thresh=1000M/ext4-100dd-1-3.5.0
243.67 -9.1% 221.41 lkp-nex04/RAID5-12HDD-thresh=1000M/ext4-10dd-1-3.5.0
248.98 +12.2% 279.33 lkp-nex04/RAID5-12HDD-thresh=1000M/ext4-1dd-1-3.5.0
208.45 +14.1% 237.86 lkp-nex04/RAID5-12HDD-thresh=1000M/ext4-1dd-2-3.5.0
71.18 -34.2% 46.82 lkp-nex04/RAID5-12HDD-thresh=100M/ext4-100dd-1-3.5.0
145.84 -7.3% 135.25 lkp-nex04/RAID5-12HDD-thresh=100M/ext4-10dd-1-3.5.0
255.22 +6.7% 272.35 lkp-nex04/RAID5-12HDD-thresh=100M/ext4-1dd-1-3.5.0
243.09 +20.7% 293.30 lkp-nex04/RAID5-12HDD-thresh=100M/ext4-1dd-2-3.5.0
209.24 -23.6% 159.96 lkp-nex04/RAID5-12HDD-thresh=8G/ext4-100dd-1-3.5.0
243.73 -10.9% 217.28 lkp-nex04/RAID5-12HDD-thresh=8G/ext4-10dd-1-3.5.0
214.25 +5.6% 226.32 lkp-nex04/RAID5-12HDD-thresh=8G/ext4-1dd-1-3.5.0
207.16 +13.4% 234.98 lkp-nex04/RAID5-12HDD-thresh=8G/ext4-1dd-2-3.5.0
17572.12 -1.9% 17240.05 TOTAL write_bw
Thanks,
Fengguang
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