Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.5.69-mm3 with contest

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Mon, 12 May 2003 10:29:02 +0200


On Mon, May 12 2003, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>
> Con Kolivas wrote:
>
> snip
>
> >io_load:
> >Kernel [runs] Time CPU% Loads LCPU% Ratio
> >2.5.68 3 492 15.9 167.1 19.7 6.23
> >2.5.68-mm1 4 128 59.4 47.6 19.4 1.62
> >2.5.68-mm2 4 131 58.8 47.0 18.9 1.64
> >2.5.68-mm3 4 271 28.4 89.2 17.9 3.39
> >2.5.69 4 343 22.7 120.5 19.8 4.29
> >2.5.69-mm3 4 319 24.5 105.3 18.1 4.04
> >
> snip
>
> >
> >dbench_load:
> >Kernel [runs] Time CPU% Loads LCPU% Ratio
> >2.5.68 3 412 18.4 5.3 47.6 5.22
> >2.5.68-mm1 4 361 21.1 5.5 54.0 4.57
> >2.5.68-mm2 4 345 22.0 4.8 49.3 4.31
> >2.5.68-mm3 4 721 10.5 6.8 33.6 9.01
> >2.5.69 4 374 20.3 5.0 48.1 4.67
> >2.5.69-mm3 4 653 11.6 6.2 34.0 8.27
> >
> >Very similar to 2.5.68-mm3
> >
> Thanks again Con. These two benchmarks especially are fairly suboptimal
> compared with the 68-mm2 days... I hope it is just the larger request queue
> size in place in the rq-dyn patch in mm. If you get some time, could you
> possibly change include/linux/blkdev.h:BLKDEV_MAX_RQ from 1024 to 128 and
> bench these two loads on that setting.

Or just wait for 2.5.70, it has rq-dyn with BLKDEV_MAX_RQ of 128.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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