* RE: [PATCH] mm: balance dirty pages
@ 2006-10-05 0:03 Ananiev, Leonid I
2006-10-05 3:50 ` Andrew Morton
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From: Ananiev, Leonid I @ 2006-10-05 0:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
The throughput of iozone benchmark is changed as
serial random
write -55% -99%
read +60% +13%
after "[PATCH] mm: balance dirty pages".
iozone is running with option -B (using mmap) for file size 120% of RAM.
Leonid
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2006-10-05 0:03 [PATCH] mm: balance dirty pages Ananiev, Leonid I
@ 2006-10-05 3:50 ` Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2006-10-05 3:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ananiev, Leonid I; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 04:03:35 +0400
"Ananiev, Leonid I" <leonid.i.ananiev@intel.com> wrote:
> The throughput of iozone benchmark is changed as
>
> serial random
> write -55% -99%
> read +60% +13%
>
> after "[PATCH] mm: balance dirty pages".
> iozone is running with option -B (using mmap) for file size 120% of RAM.
>
That is expected and intentional. Previously, `iozone -B' was able to
swamp the whole machine with dirty memory. That gives good benchmark
numbers, but causes everything else on the machine to be adversely
affected.
The new behaviour will punish iozone for being bad, and will hopefully
cause less damage to other applications.
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