linux-kernel - Re: Tux3 Report: Faster than tmpfs, what?

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Message-ID: <87mwrydmam.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp>
Date:	Tue, 14 May 2013 16:59:29 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, tux3@...3.org,
	Daniel Phillips <daniel.raymond.phillips@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tux3 Report: Faster than tmpfs, what?

Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> writes:

>> Right. Because tux3 is not implementing fsync() yet. So, I did
>> 
>> 	grep -v Flush /usr/share/dbench/client.txt > client2.txt
>> 
>> Why is it important for comparing?
>
> Because nobody could reproduce your results without working that
> out. You didn't disclose that you'd made these changes, and that
> makes it extremely misleading as to what the results mean. Given the
> headline-grab nature of it, it's deceptive at best.
>
> I don't care how fast tux3 is - I care about being able to reproduce
> other people's results. Hence if you are going to report benchmark
> results comparing filesystems then you need to tell everyone exactly
> what you've tweaked and why, from the hardware all the way up to the
> benchmark config.

Thanks for adivce.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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