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Message-ID: <20171012063550.GM26196@yexl-desktop>
Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:35:50 +0800
From:   kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@...el.com>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, lkp@...org
Subject: [lkp-robot] [ext4]  5e405595e5:  fio.read_bw_MBps +408.4% improvement


Greeting,

FYI, we noticed a +408.4% improvement of fio.read_bw_MBps due to commit:


commit: 5e405595e5bf4c09fab9ca1e7dbe5b62872757b5 ("ext4: perform dax_device lookup at mount")
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master

in testcase: fio-basic
on test machine: 56 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v3 @ 2.30GHz with 256G memory
with following parameters:

	disk: 2pmem
	fs: ext4
	mount_option: dax
	runtime: 200s
	nr_task: 50%
	time_based: tb
	rw: read
	bs: 4k
	ioengine: libaio
	test_size: 200G
	cpufreq_governor: performance

test-description: Fio is a tool that will spawn a number of threads or processes doing a particular type of I/O action as specified by the user.
test-url: https://github.com/axboe/fio



Details are as below:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->


To reproduce:

        git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git
        cd lkp-tests
        bin/lkp install job.yaml  # job file is attached in this email
        bin/lkp run     job.yaml

commit:
  8cf037a8b22f71c6659bd0246bfaba9e79766f64
  5e405595e5bf4c09fab9ca1e7dbe5b62872757b5

8cf037a8b22f71c6 5e405595e5bf4c09fab9ca1e7d
---------------- --------------------------
         %stddev     %change         %stddev
             \          |                \
      8736          +408.4%      44415 ±  2%  fio.read_bw_MBps
      0.06 ± 26%      -0.1        0.01        fio.latency_1000us%
      0.01           +93.8       93.84 ±  2%  fio.latency_100us%
      0.01            +6.1        6.15 ± 42%  fio.latency_250us%
      0.02            -0.0        0.01        fio.latency_2ms%
     99.48           -99.5        0.01        fio.latency_500us%
      0.43 ± 16%      -0.4        0.01        fio.latency_750us%
    401.00           -76.2%      95.25 ±  4%  fio.read_clat_90%_us
    405.00           -75.3%     100.00 ±  4%  fio.read_clat_95%_us
    438.00 ±  5%     -74.8%     110.50 ±  4%  fio.read_clat_99%_us
    388.34           -80.3%      76.63 ±  2%  fio.read_clat_mean_us
     66.36 ± 42%     -63.6%      24.19 ± 40%  fio.read_clat_stddev
   2236559          +408.4%   11370293 ±  2%  fio.read_iops
     12.03           -83.8%       1.95 ±  3%  fio.read_slat_mean_us
     11.30 ± 47%     -70.2%       3.36 ± 60%  fio.read_slat_stddev
      5410           -15.7%       4559        fio.time.system_time
    196.09          +434.7%       1048 ±  2%  fio.time.user_time
    114234 ±  2%      -5.2%     108318 ±  3%  interrupts.CAL:Function_call_interrupts
    209464 ±  9%     -13.8%     180474 ± 10%  meminfo.Active
      1627 ±  2%      +5.0%       1708 ±  2%  vmstat.system.cs
   1931138 ±  2%     -28.5%    1381485 ± 10%  cpuidle.C1.time
   2328227 ± 14%     -27.9%    1679316 ±  4%  cpuidle.C1E.time
      5410           -15.7%       4559        time.system_time
    196.09          +434.7%       1048 ±  2%  time.user_time


                                  fio.read_bw_MBps

  60000 +-+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
        |                                                                   |
  50000 +-+O                                                                |
        |     O  O            O  O  O  O  O     O                     O     |
        O           O  O   O                 O     O  O  O   O  O  O        |
  40000 +-+                                                                 |
        |                                                                   |
  30000 +-+                                                                 |
        |                                                                   |
  20000 +-+                                                                 |
        |                                                                   |
        |                                                                   |
  10000 +-++..+..+..+..+...+..+..+..+..+..+..+..+..+..+..+...+..+..+..+..+..|
        |..                                                                 |
      0 +-+-----------------------------------------------------------------+


                                     fio.read_iops

  1.4e+07 +-+---------------------------------------------------------------+
          |  O                                                              |
  1.2e+07 +-+   O  O           O  O  O  O  O     O                    O     |
          O           O  O  O                 O     O  O  O  O  O  O        |
    1e+07 +-+                                                               |
          |                                                                 |
    8e+06 +-+                                                               |
          |                                                                 |
    6e+06 +-+                                                               |
          |                                                                 |
    4e+06 +-+                                                               |
          |                                                                 |
    2e+06 +-++..+..+..+..+..+..+..+..+..+..+..+..+..+..+..+..+..+..+..+..+..|
          |..                                                               |
        0 +-+---------------------------------------------------------------+


[*] bisect-good sample
[O] bisect-bad  sample


Disclaimer:
Results have been estimated based on internal Intel analysis and are provided
for informational purposes only. Any difference in system hardware or software
design or configuration may affect actual performance.


Thanks,
Xiaolong

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