linux-kernel - Re: blk-mq: refactor request allocation

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Message-ID: <5385F0BB.7080406@fb.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 May 2014 08:20:43 -0600
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: blk-mq: refactor request allocation

On 2014-05-27 23:19, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 02:58:08PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 05/27/2014 12:59 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> This series streamlines the request allocation path.
>>>
>>
>> Series looks innocuous enough to me, but it's about a 1.5% performance
>> drop here with an actual device. These tests are very stable, anything
>> over ~0.1% is definitely outside of noise. I repeated and rebooted a few
>> times and tested both, it's persistent. No smoking guns in the profile.
>
> Can you do a bisect to narrow it down to one of the patches?

Sure, I'll give it a whirl.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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