Re: [ata] 0568e61225: stress-ng.copy-file.ops_per_sec -15.0% regression

[Oliver Sang]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 10:28:30AM +0100, John Garry wrote:
> On 18/08/2022 03:06, Oliver Sang wrote:
> 
> Hi Oliver,
> 
> > > > did I do the right thing?
> > > Sorry but I was not really interested in 4cbfca5f77 and I see where that
> > > build error is coming, but don't be concerned with it. However, for
> > > avoidance of doubt, if you have results for vanilla v6.0-rc1 then that would
> > > be appreciated.
> > for v6.0-rc1, it's still 512/512
> > 
> > > I will also send a separate patch for testing if you don't mind.
> > sure! we are very glad that we could help.
> 
> As you probably saw, I sent "[RFT PATCH] ata: libata: Set __ATA_BASE_SHT
> max_sectors" for testing on top of v6.0-rc1, and I hope that then we can get
> same performance as v5.19

yeah, our test confirmed your expectation:

stress-ng.copy-file.ops_per_sec
v5.19                 - 26.85
v6.0-rc1              - 23.03
v6.0-rc1 + your patch - 26.94

> 
> Thanks,
> John