Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261437AbUDCAHD (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Apr 2004 19:07:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261443AbUDCAHD (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Apr 2004 19:07:03 -0500 Received: from smtp104.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.223]:18007 "HELO smtp104.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261437AbUDCAG5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Apr 2004 19:06:57 -0500 Message-ID: <406DFABD.8070400@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 09:43:57 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: markw@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe Subject: Re: 2.6.5-rc3-mm4 References: <20040401020512.0db54102.akpm@osdl.org> <200404021904.i32J4M215682@mail.osdl.org> <20040402115601.24912093.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040402115601.24912093.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2720 Lines: 62 Andrew Morton wrote: > markw@osdl.org wrote: > >>I reran DBT-2 to with ext2 and ext3 (in case you were still interested) >> on my 4-way Xeon system with 60+ drives: >> http://developer.osdl.org/markw/fs/dbt2_project_results.html >> >> Aside from the from the drop you're already aware of since 2.6.3, it >> looks like DBT-2 takes another smaller hit after 2.6.5-rc3-mm2. Here's >> a brief summary from the link above: > > > The profile is interesting: > > 3671973 poll_idle 63309.8793 > 77750 __copy_from_user_ll 637.2951 > 64788 generic_unplug_device 487.1278 > 62968 DAC960_LP_InterruptHandler 336.7273 > 53908 finish_task_switch 361.7987 > 52947 __copy_to_user_ll 441.2250 > 29419 dm_table_unplug_all 439.0896 > 25947 __make_request 17.9938 > 18564 dm_table_any_congested 199.6129 > 13785 update_queue 104.4318 > 13498 try_to_wake_up 20.3590 > 12736 __wake_up 114.7387 > 12560 kmem_cache_alloc 163.1169 > 12221 .text.lock.sched 40.7367 > > - There's a ton of idle time there. > > - The CPU scheduler is hurting. Nick and Ingo are patching up a storm to > fix a similar problem which Jeremy Higdon is observing at 200,000 > IOs/sec. This will get better. Versus this for 2.6.3: 12825181 poll_idle 221123.8103 219606 schedule 126.7201 194233 __copy_from_user_ll 1541.5317 191707 __copy_to_user_ll 1597.5583 149704 DAC960_LP_InterruptHandler 800.5561 120972 generic_unplug_device 822.9388 87891 __make_request 60.9931 49207 try_to_wake_up 74.5561 42647 do_anonymous_page 65.5100 Which looks like it is taking a lot longer (is it the same test?) It is difficult to tell how idle each one is due to lack of total ticks reported, but, copy_to/from_user is 3% the amount of idle time in 2.6.3, while being 3.5% the amount of idle time in your profile. So 2.6.3 could be relatively more idle than -mm. Do we know what the 2.6.3 regression is caused by? Or is it likely to be the CPU scheduler? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/