Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 13:04:05 -0300
From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
To: Kay Diederichs <Kay.Diederichs@uni-konstanz.de>
Cc: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>,
        linux <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
        Karsten Schaefer <karsten.schaefer@uni-konstanz.de>
Subject: Re: ext4 performance regression 2.6.27-stable versus 2.6.32 and
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On Mon, 02 Aug 2010, Kay Diederichs wrote:
> Performance-wise, we tried mounting with barrier versus nobarrier (or
> barrier=1 versus barrier=0) and re-did the 2.6.32+ benchmarks. It turned
> out that the benchmark difference with and without barrier is less than
> the variation between runs (which is much higher with 2.6.32+ than with
> 2.6.27-stable), so the influence seems to be minor.

Did you check interactions with the IO scheduler?

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  Henrique Holschuh
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