Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754881AbYHUCq0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:46:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752807AbYHUCqO (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:46:14 -0400 Received: from tamago.serverit.net ([91.189.209.155]:45620 "EHLO mail.hosting2.serverit.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752725AbYHUCqN (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:46:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:46:00 +0300 (EEST) From: Szabolcs Szakacsits X-X-Sender: szaka@tamago.serverit.net To: Dave Chinner cc: Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] nilfs2: continuous snapshotting file system In-Reply-To: <20080821021259.GA5706@disturbed> Message-ID: References: <20080820004326.519405a2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200808201613.AA00212@capsicum.lab.ntt.co.jp> <20080820143916.1a7eddab.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080821021259.GA5706@disturbed> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2493 Lines: 64 On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 02:39:16PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:25:55 +0300 (MET DST) > > Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > > > I ran compilebench on kernel 2.6.26 with freshly formatted volumes. > > > The behavior of NILFS2 was interesting. > > > > > > Its peformance rapidly degrades to the lowest ever measured level > > > (< 1 MB/s) but after a while it recovers and gives consistent numbers. > > > However it's still very far from the current unstable btrfs performance. > > > The results are reproducible. > > > > > > MB/s Runtime (s) > > > ----- ----------- > > > btrfs unstable 17.09 572 > > > ext3 13.24 877 > > > btrfs 0.16 12.33 793 > > > nilfs2 2nd+ runs 11.29 674 > > > ntfs-3g 8.55 865 > > > reiserfs 8.38 966 > > > nilfs2 1st run 4.95 3800 > > > xfs 1.88 3901 > > > > err, what the heck happened to xfs? Is this usual? > > No, definitely not usual. I suspect it's from an old mkfs and > barriers being used. What is the output of the xfs.mkfs when > you make the filesystem and what mount options being used? Everything is default. % rpm -qf =mkfs.xfs xfsprogs-2.9.8-7.1 which, according to ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars, is the latest stable mkfs.xfs. Its output is meta-data=/dev/sda8 isize=256 agcount=4, agsize=1221440 blks = sectsz=512 attr=2 data = bsize=4096 blocks=4885760, imaxpct=25 = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks naming =version 2 bsize=4096 log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=2560, version=2 = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=0 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 Kernel xfs log: SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block/inode numbers, no debug enabled SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem XFS mounting filesystem sda8 Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: sda8 Szaka -- NTFS-3G: http://ntfs-3g.org -- 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/