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SubjectRe: [BENCHMARK] I/O regression after 2.6.0-test5


Nick Piggin wrote:

>
>
> Dave Olien wrote:
>
>> Sorry, this patch didn't fix our performance problems. Mary just
>> finished running dbt2 on test8 with your patch:
>>
>> NOTPM kernel scheduler
>> 965 2.6.0-test8-np AS
>> 1632 2.6.-test6-mm4 deadline
>>
>
> Thanks. hmm.
> And NOTPM was better with AS in test5? Does using as-iosched.c from test5
> in a test8 kernel help?
>

If that helps, can you try this patch.

linux-2.6-npiggin/drivers/block/as-iosched.c | 23 +++--------------------
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/block/as-iosched.c~as-fix drivers/block/as-iosched.c
--- linux-2.6/drivers/block/as-iosched.c~as-fix 2003-10-23 13:46:11.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-2.6-npiggin/drivers/block/as-iosched.c 2003-10-23 13:47:58.000000000 +1000
@@ -99,7 +99,6 @@ struct as_data {
sector_t last_sector[2]; /* last REQ_SYNC & REQ_ASYNC sectors */
struct list_head *dispatch; /* driver dispatch queue */
struct list_head *hash; /* request hash */
- unsigned long new_success; /* anticipation success on new proc */
unsigned long current_batch_expires;
unsigned long last_check_fifo[2];
int changed_batch; /* 1: waiting for old batch to end */
@@ -585,18 +584,11 @@ static void as_antic_stop(struct as_data
int status = ad->antic_status;

if (status == ANTIC_WAIT_REQ || status == ANTIC_WAIT_NEXT) {
- struct as_io_context *aic;
-
if (status == ANTIC_WAIT_NEXT)
del_timer(&ad->antic_timer);
ad->antic_status = ANTIC_FINISHED;
/* see as_work_handler */
kblockd_schedule_work(&ad->antic_work);
-
- aic = ad->io_context->aic;
- if (aic->seek_samples == 0)
- /* new process */
- ad->new_success = (ad->new_success * 3) / 4 + 256;
}
}

@@ -612,14 +604,8 @@ static void as_antic_timeout(unsigned lo
spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags);
if (ad->antic_status == ANTIC_WAIT_REQ
|| ad->antic_status == ANTIC_WAIT_NEXT) {
- struct as_io_context *aic;
ad->antic_status = ANTIC_FINISHED;
kblockd_schedule_work(&ad->antic_work);
-
- aic = ad->io_context->aic;
- if (aic->seek_samples == 0)
- /* new process */
- ad->new_success = (ad->new_success * 3) / 4;
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
}
@@ -708,11 +694,10 @@ static int as_can_break_anticipation(str
return 1;
}

- if (ad->new_success < 256 &&
- (aic->seek_samples == 0 || aic->ttime_samples == 0)) {
+ if (aic->seek_samples == 0 || aic->ttime_samples == 0) {
/*
- * Process has just started IO and we have a bad history of
- * success anticipating on new processes!
+ * Process has just started IO. Don't anticipate.
+ * TODO! Must fix this up.
*/
return 1;
}
@@ -1822,8 +1807,6 @@ static int as_init(request_queue_t *q, e
if (ad->write_batch_count < 2)
ad->write_batch_count = 2;

- ad->new_success = 512;
-
return 0;
}

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