Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-29 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the reasons I do 15 GB transfers is to make sure that I am > well above the possible page cache size. And of course I am doing a > final sync to finish the runs :-) The sync is also running faster in > 2.6.24-rc1. > > If I factor it

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
07 9:33:40 PM > Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions > > > * Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > dd1 - copy 16 GB from /dev/zero to local FS > > > > dd1-dir - same, but using O_DIRECT for output > > > > dd2/dd2-dir - copy 2x7.6 GB in pa

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 7:59:51 AM > Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions > > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:46:57 -0700 Arjan van de > Ven > wrote: > > > > > > dd1 - copy 16 GB from /dev/zero to local FS > > > > > dd

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:33:40 +0200 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so a final 'sync' should be added to the test too, and the time it takes factored into the bandwidth numbers? That's one way of doing it. Or just run

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:46:57 -0700 Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > dd1 - copy 16 GB from /dev/zero to local FS > > > > dd1-dir - same, but using O_DIRECT for output > > > > dd2/dd2-dir - copy 2x7.6 GB in parallel from /dev/zero to local FS > > > > dd3/dd3-dir - copy 3x5.2 GB in

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-26 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:21:55 -0700 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:22:21 +0200 > Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > * Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi , > > > > > > just to give some feedback on 2.6.24-rc1. For some time

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:33:40 +0200 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > dd1 - copy 16 GB from /dev/zero to local FS > > > > dd1-dir - same, but using O_DIRECT for output > > > > dd2/dd2-dir - copy 2x7.6 GB in parallel from /dev/zero to l

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-26 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > dd1 - copy 16 GB from /dev/zero to local FS > > > dd1-dir - same, but using O_DIRECT for output > > > dd2/dd2-dir - copy 2x7.6 GB in parallel from /dev/zero to local FS > > > dd3/dd3-dir - copy 3x5.2 GB in parallel from /dev/zero lo local FS > > >

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:22:21 +0200 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi , > > > > just to give some feedback on 2.6.24-rc1. For some time I am tracking > > IO/writeback problems that hurt system responsiveness big-time. I > > tes

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-26 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:29:00 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > wow, really nice results! Peter does know how to make stuff fast :) > > Now lets pick up some of Peter's other, previously discarded > > patches as well :-) > > > > Such as the rewritten reclaim (clockpro) patches: >

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-26 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 17:22 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi , > > > > just to give some feedback on 2.6.24-rc1. For some time I am tracking > > IO/writeback problems that hurt system responsiveness big-time. I > > tested Peters stuff togethe

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-26 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi , > > just to give some feedback on 2.6.24-rc1. For some time I am tracking > IO/writeback problems that hurt system responsiveness big-time. I > tested Peters stuff together with Fenguangs additions and it looked > promising. Therefore I

2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-26 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Hi , just to give some feedback on 2.6.24-rc1. For some time I am tracking IO/writeback problems that hurt system responsiveness big-time. I tested Peters stuff together with Fenguangs additions and it looked promising. Therefore I was very happy to see Peters stuff going into 2.6.24 and waite