Thanks Jeff.Your tests show that with the patch, low_latency doesn't penalizewriteback any more on fast hardware, so the goal of the patch isfulfilled. Lowering slice_async doesn't change the picture (I wasexpecting an improvement in seq write bandwidth).I'm still puzzled of why with 2.6.29 your SAN could achieve 300 MB/ssequential writes, and it can't achieve it any more.Can you try lowering slice_idle, trying e.g. 2ms? ThanksCorrado On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote:> Corrado Zoccolo writes:>>> Hi Jeff,>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote:>>> Corrado Zoccolo writes:>>>>>>> The numbers look good. Now, there is no penalty in having low_latency>>>> set for sequential writes, and just a small penalty for random ones.>>>> The fact that random reads are faster with low_latency set is interesting.>>>> Is the test is running with your patched tiobench (so that the number>>>> of random operations is comparable with sequential ones)?>>>>>> No, I forgot all about that.  The number of random operations defaults>>> to 4000, which is pretty low.  I'll re-run the tests with a number>>> comparable to the sequential runs.  Sorry about that.>>>>> N.P.>> if you have time, can you also re-run the test changing:>> iosched/fifo_expire_async to 8 ?>> I hope that reducing the expire_async, will make cfq quicker at switching>> between the different threads, allowing more parallelism for seq>> writers on your hw.>> If this is the case, I think I can try to estimate the>> fifo_expire_async in the autotuning patch.>> Sorry this took so long.  I've been rather busy of late.>> Cheers,> Jeff>> low_latency=1, fifo_expire_async=8>> Unit information> ================> File size = megabytes> Blk Size  = bytes> Rate      = megabytes per second> CPU%      = percentage of CPU used during the test> Latency   = milliseconds> Lat%      = percent of requests that took longer than X seconds> CPU Eff   = Rate divided by CPU% - throughput per cpu load>> Sequential Reads>                              File  Blk   Num                   Avg      Maximum      Lat%     Lat%    CPU> Identifier                    Size  Size  Thr   Rate  (CPU%)  Latency    Latency      >2s      >10s    Eff> ---------------------------- ------ ----- ---  ------ ------ --------- -----------  -------- -------- -----> 2.6.32                        8192  65536   8   88.39 89.74%    16.388     2032.62   0.00000  0.00000    98> 2.6.32                        8192  65536  16   90.77 185.3%    32.213     2175.99   0.00000  0.00000    49>> Random Reads>                              File  Blk   Num                   Avg      Maximum      Lat%     Lat%    CPU> Identifier                    Size  Size  Thr   Rate  (CPU%)  Latency    Latency      >2s      >10s    Eff> ---------------------------- ------ ----- ---  ------ ------ --------- -----------  -------- -------- -----> 2.6.32                        8192  65536   8   19.62 25.74%    71.827     3397.26   0.00000  0.00000    76> 2.6.32                        8192  65536  16   23.82 55.01%   103.361     4075.53   0.00000  0.00000    43>> Sequential Writes>                              File  Blk   Num                   Avg      Maximum      Lat%     Lat%    CPU> Identifier                    Size  Size  Thr   Rate  (CPU%)  Latency    Latency      >2s      >10s    Eff> ---------------------------- ------ ----- ---  ------ ------ --------- -----------  -------- -------- -----> 2.6.32                        8192  65536   8  108.28 1007.%    12.984     5643.55   0.00076  0.00000    11> 2.6.32                        8192  65536  16  112.40 2014.%    25.430     8592.98   0.00839  0.00000     6>> Random Writes>                              File  Blk   Num                   Avg      Maximum      Lat%     Lat%    CPU> Identifier                    Size  Size  Thr   Rate  (CPU%)  Latency    Latency      >2s      >10s    Eff> ---------------------------- ------ ----- ---  ------ ------ --------- -----------  -------- -------- -----> 2.6.32                        8192  65536   8   63.94 337.7%    22.885     6047.22   0.00076  0.00000    19> 2.6.32                        8192  65536  16   61.94 662.5%    46.997    12759.69   0.15411  0.00000     9>>> low_latency=0, fifo_expire_async=8>> Unit information> ================> File size = megabytes> Blk Size  = bytes> Rate      = megabytes per second> CPU%      = percentage of CPU used during the test> Latency   = milliseconds> Lat%      = percent of requests that took longer than X seconds> CPU Eff   = Rate divided by CPU% - throughput per cpu load>> Sequential Reads>                              File  Blk   Num                   Avg      Maximum      Lat%     Lat%    CPU> Identifier                    Size  Size  Thr   Rate  (CPU%)  Latency    Latency      >2s      >10s    Eff> ---------------------------- ------ ----- ---  ------ ------ --------- -----------  -------- -------- -----> 2.6.32                        8192  65536   8   89.13 88.30%    15.872     3101.39   0.00000  0.00000   101> 2.6.32                        8192  65536  16   86.78 161.7%    30.794     4909.02   0.00000  0.00000    54>> Random Reads>                              File  Blk   Num                   Avg      Maximum      Lat%     Lat%    CPU> Identifier                    Size  Size  Thr   Rate  (CPU%)  Latency    Latency      >2s      >10s    Eff> ---------------------------- ------ ----- ---  ------ ------ --------- -----------  -------- -------- -----> 2.6.32                        8192  65536   8   20.21 26.64%    69.863     4285.42   0.00000  0.00000    76> 2.6.32                        8192  65536  16   20.10 52.75%   139.761     5986.94   0.00076  0.00000    38>> Sequential Writes>                              File  Blk   Num                   Avg      Maximum      Lat%     Lat%    CPU> Identifier                    Size  Size  Thr   Rate  (CPU%)  Latency    Latency      >2s      >10s    Eff> ---------------------------- ------ ----- ---  ------ ------ --------- -----------  -------- -------- -----> 2.6.32                        8192  65536   8  108.74 1020.%    13.070     5331.78   0.00076  0.00000    11> 2.6.32                        8192  65536  16  112.18 2020.%    25.559     7903.16   0.00992  0.00000     6>> Random Writes>                              File  Blk   Num                   Avg      Maximum      Lat%     Lat%    CPU> Identifier                    Size  Size  Thr   Rate  (CPU%)  Latency    Latency      >2s      >10s    Eff> ---------------------------- ------ ----- ---  ------ ------ --------- -----------  -------- -------- -----> 2.6.32                        8192  65536   8   64.53 337.8%    22.671     5388.77   0.00000  0.00000    19> 2.6.32                        8192  65536  16   61.75 668.9%    47.265    13271.37   0.12894  0.00000     9> -- __________________________________________________________________________ dott. 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