Re: AS performance with reiser4 on 2.6.3

[markw@osdl.org]

On 26 Feb, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> markw@osdl.org writes:
>  > Hi Nick,
>  > 
>  > I started getting some results with dbt-2 on 2.6.3 and saw that reiser4
>  > is doing a bit worse with the AS elevator.  Although reiser4 wasn't
>  > doing well to begin with, compared to the other filesystems.  I have
>  > links to the STP results on our 4-ways and 8-ways here:
>  > 	http://developer.osdl.org/markw/fs/dbt2_stp_results.html
> 
> There were no changes between 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 that could affect reiser4
> performance, so it is not clear why numbers are so different. Probably
> results should be averaged over several runs. Also can you run test with
> 
> http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.02.25/extra/e_05-proc-sleep.patch
> 
> applied? To use it turn CONFIG_PROC_SLEEP on (depends on
> CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER), and do "cat /proc/sleep" before and after test
> run.

http://khack.osdl.org/stp/288905/results/

There are a set of /proc/sleep files there from a 4-way system.

Mark