Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.{18,19{-ck9},20rc1{-aa1}} with contest

[Stephen Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 07:09, Con Kolivas wrote:
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> >On Sat, Nov 09 2002, Con Kolivas wrote:
> >> >You're showing a big shift in behaviour between 2.4.19 and 2.4.20-rc1.
> >> >Maybe it doesn't translate to worsened interactivity.  Needs more
> >> >testing and anaysis.
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> >> Sounds fair enough. My resources are exhausted though. Someone else have
> >> any thoughts?
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> >Try setting lower elevator passover values. Something ala
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> ># elvtune -r 64 /dev/hda
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> >(or whatever your drive is)
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> Heres some more data:
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> io_load:
> Kernel [runs]           Time    CPU%    Loads   LCPU%   Ratio
> 2.4.20-rc1 [2]          1142.2  6       90      10      16.00
> 2420rc1r64 [3]          575.0   12      43      10      8.05
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> That's it then. Should I run a family of different values and if so over what 
> range?
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There is more going on than this, XFS suffered a major slowdown in some
metadata write only benchmarks - the file create/delete phase of 
bonnie++. Now thats a single app only doing writes. Slowdown on the
order of 500% to 600%. Since we did not follow the pre kernels in
2.4.20 we do not really know when it was introduced and there is
a possibility XFS itself has not followed some api change.

Steve