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SubjectRe: [performance bug] kernel building regression on 64 LCPUs machine
On Tue 22-03-11 13:46:06, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> writes:
>
> > Jeff, I suppose the log files of fs_mark processes are on the same
> > device as the test directory, aren't they - that might explain the
> > flusher thread doing IO? The patch below
>
> No. My test environments are sane. The file system is on a completely
> separate disk and it is unmounted and remounted in between each run.
> That should take care of any lost flushes.
OK, I understand but let me clear out one thing. What fs_mark seems to be
doing is:
for given number of iterations { (-L option, default 1)
fork each thread {
start timer
for i = 1 .. 10000 { (could be changed by option -n)
write file i
}
stop timer
for i = 1 .. 10000 {
unlink file i
}
write statistics to log file
exit
}
read all log files, write combined results to another log file
}

I see from blktrace data that indeed you are running more than one
iteration of the fs_mark process so the problem I was wondering about is
whether unlinking or writing of log files cannot interefere with the IO
happening while the timer is running.

Now log files are rather small so I don't really think they cause any
problem but they could be the data flusher thread writes - they are stored
in the current directory (unless you use -l option). So I my question was
aiming at where these files are stored - do you specify -l option and if
not, what is the current directory of fs_mark process in your setup?

I think unlinks could possibly cause problems and that's why I suggested we
add sync() to the parent process before it runs the next iteration...

> Did you receive my last couple of private emails commenting on the trace
> data?
Yes, I did get them. I'll reply to them in a while.

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR


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