Hello Anton,
Thank you for your suggestion. I tried dbench for on a 4-way PIII Xeon box, with
1MB L2 Cache and 1GB of RAM. I ran it on 8 GB ext2 partition with Adaptec 7896
SCSI controller. I ran "dbench 100" and "dbench 200" for five times and took the
average of the throughput and found that for
Base (2.4.2) -
100 Average Throughput = 39.628 MB/sec
200 Average Throughput = 22.792 MB/sec
Base + files_struct patch -
100 Average Throughput = 39.874 MB/sec
200 Average Throughput = 23.174 MB/sec
I found this value quite less than the one present in the README distributed
with dbench tarball. I think the numbers in the README were for a similar
machine but with 2.2.9 kernel.
As you can see the performance with files_struct patch is almost same as base.
I feel I am hitting some bottleneck other than fget() in both base and the
patched versions. I think atleast for base version I should get similar numbers
as mentions in the README for similar configuration. Though I intend to do some
profiling to look into this but it will be helpfull if you can tell me if there
is some known thing regarding this.
I am copying this to Andrew also, if he can also help. Also if you have some
dbench numbers from 2.4.x kernel, please let me have a look into those also.
Thank you,
Maneesh
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