From: Daniel Phillips <daniel@phunq.net>
To: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
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        <tux3@tux3.org>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
        OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Subject: Re: Tux3 Report: How fast can we =?iso-8859-1?Q?fsync=3F?=
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:40:22 -0700
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On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 9:42:43 AM PDT, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> [dbench bakeoff]
>
> With dbench v4.00, tux3 seems to be king of the max_latency hill, but
> btrfs took throughput on my box.  With v3.04, tux3 took 1st place at
> splashing about in pagecache, but last place at dbench -S.
>
> Hohum, curiosity satisfied.

Hi Mike,

Thanks for that. Please keep in mind, that was our B team, it does a
full fs sync for every fsync. Maybe a rematch when the shiny new one
lands? Also, hardware? It looks like a single 7200 RPM disk, but it
would be nice to know. And it seems, not all dbench 4.0 are equal.
Mine doesn't have a -B option.

That order of magnitude latency difference is striking. It sounds
good, but what does it mean? I see a smaller difference here, maybe
because of running under KVM.

Your results seem to confirm the gap I noticed between Ext4 and XFS
on the one hand and Btrfs and Tux3 on the other, with the caveat that
the anomalous dbench -S result is probably about running with the
older fsync code. Of course, this is just dbench, but maybe something
to keep an eye on.

Regards,

Daniel
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