From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: 2.6.39 and 3.0 scalability measurement results Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 10:50:12 +1000 Message-ID: <20110802005012.GD12870@dastard> References: <4E361630.9060907@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ext4 Developers List , xfs@oss.sgi.com To: Eric Whitney Return-path: Received: from ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.141]:37687 "EHLO ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753238Ab1HBAuR (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2011 20:50:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E361630.9060907@hp.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:57:52PM -0400, Eric Whitney wrote: > I've posted the results of my 2.6.38/2.6.39 and 2.6.39/3.0 ext4 > scalability measurements and comparisons on a 48 core x86_64 server > at: > > http://free.linux.hp.com/~enw/ext4/2.6.39 > > http://free.linux.hp.com/~enw/ext4/3.0 > > The results include throughput and CPU efficiency graphs for five > simple workloads, the raw data for same, and lockstats as well. > > The data cover ext4 filesystems with and without journals. For > reference, ext3, xfs, and btrfs are included as well. Can you include the output of the mkfs programs so that we can see what the structure of the filesystems are? That makes a big difference when interpreting the XFS results. And FWIW, I'd be really interested to see the XFS results using the inode64 mount option, rather then the not-really-ideal-for-multi-TB- filesystems-but-used-historically-for-32-bit-application- compatibility-reasons default of inode32. inode64 drastically changes the layout of files and directories in the filesystems, so I'd expect to see significant differences (good and bad!) in the workloads using that option. We've been considering changing it to be the default, so having some idea of how it compares on your worklaods woul dbe an interesting discussion point... BTW, seeing as you are running against multiple diffferent filesytems, can you cc these emails to linux-fsdevel rather than just the ext4 list? There is wider interest in your results than just ext4 developers... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com