Re: RFC on io-stalls patch

From: Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Mon Jul 14 2003 - 15:09:40 EST


On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:

> Some initial results with the attached patch, I'll try and do some more
> fine grained tomorrow. Base kernel was 2.4.22-pre5 (obviously), drive
> tested is a SCSI drive (on aic7xxx, tcq fixed at 4), fs is ext3. I would
> have done ide testing actually, but the drive in that machine appears to
> have gone dead. I'll pop in a new one tomorrow and test on that too.
>
> no_load:
> Kernel [runs] Time CPU% Loads LCPU% Ratio
> 2.4.22-pre5 2 134 196.3 0.0 0.0 1.00
> 2.4.22-pre5-axboe 3 133 196.2 0.0 0.0 1.00
> ctar_load:
> Kernel [runs] Time CPU% Loads LCPU% Ratio
> 2.4.22-pre5 3 235 114.0 25.0 22.1 1.75
> 2.4.22-pre5-axboe 3 194 138.1 19.7 20.6 1.46
> xtar_load:
> Kernel [runs] Time CPU% Loads LCPU% Ratio
> 2.4.22-pre5 3 309 86.4 15.0 14.9 2.31
> 2.4.22-pre5-axboe 3 249 107.2 11.3 14.1 1.87
> io_load:
> Kernel [runs] Time CPU% Loads LCPU% Ratio
> 2.4.22-pre5 3 637 42.5 120.2 18.5 4.75
> 2.4.22-pre5-axboe 3 540 50.0 103.0 18.1 4.06
> io_other:
> Kernel [runs] Time CPU% Loads LCPU% Ratio
> 2.4.22-pre5 3 576 47.2 107.7 19.8 4.30
> 2.4.22-pre5-axboe 3 452 59.7 85.3 19.5 3.40
> read_load:
> Kernel [runs] Time CPU% Loads LCPU% Ratio
> 2.4.22-pre5 3 150 181.3 8.1 9.3 1.12
> 2.4.22-pre5-axboe 3 152 178.9 8.2 9.9 1.14

Awesome. I'll add it in -pre6.

Thanks a lot Jens.

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