Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [PATCH] concurrent block allocation for ext2 against 2.5.64

[William Lee Irwin III]

Andrew Morton (AM) writes:
AM> Nope.  What we're trying to measure here is pure in-memory lock
AM> contention, locked bus traffic, context switches, etc, etc.  To
AM> do that we need to get the IO system out of the picture.

On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 11:16:10AM +0300, Alex Tomas wrote:
> I simple use own pretty simple test. btw, you may disable preallocation
> to increase allocation rate

This looks very interesting, but it may have to wait ca. 24 hours for
some benchmark time b/c of the long boot times and late hour in .us.

This also looks like it would be a much better stress test, and the
NUMA-Q is known for bringing out many rare races. There is are good
reasons to run this test even aside from performance.

-- wli