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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:09:12 +0200
From: "Ramon Chimeno" <ramon.chimeno@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Disk I/O degraded performance
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Hi all

I migrated one of my server from kernel 2.6.18 to the latest 2.6.22
and I experienced lower disk performance for processes that open file
with the O_DIRECT flag.

I did a very simple test program that opens two files with O_DIRECT
flag and reads the files to end. I monitored the time spent to read
the files and I have ~ 40% of difference between 2.6.18 and 2.6.22.

For information, the files are stored on a XFS partition which is part
of a software raid-5 block device (the raid-5 is made with 3 SATA
drives).

Does that make sense to you gurus ? Of course, I didn't change the
configuration (task scheduler, HZ, default I/O scheduler, ...) between
the two kernels.

For information, the code of my test program is pasted below (I
snipped the #include part):
----------------------8<----------------------8<----------------------
#define BSIZE (512*512)
int main(int ac, char * av[])
{
 int   fd[2];
 char* buffer;

 if (ac != 3)  {
   printf("USAGE: %s <FILE-1> <FILE-2>\n", av[0]);
   exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 }

 if ((fd[0] = open(av[1], O_RDONLY|O_DIRECT)) == -1)
   exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 if ((fd[1] = open(av[2], O_RDONLY|O_DIRECT)) == -1)
   exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 if ((buffer = (char *)memalign(4096, BSIZE)) == 0)
   exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

 for (;;)  {
   if (read(fd[0], buffer, BSIZE) != BSIZE)
     break;
   if (read(fd[1], buffer, BSIZE) != BSIZE)
     break;
 }
 close(fd[0]);
 close(fd[1]);
 free(buffer);
 return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
----------------------8<----------------------8<----------------------

Any help/hint would be appreciate.

-- R.C
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