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SubjectRe: ext4 write performance regression in 3.6-rc1
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:40:39AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 02:09:15PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > Ted,
> >
> > I find ext4 write performance dropped by 3.3% on average in the
> > 3.6-rc1 merge window. xfs and btrfs are fine.
> >
> > Two machines are tested. The performance regression happens in the
> > lkp-nex04 machine, which is equipped with 12 SSD drives. lkp-st02 does
> > not see regression, which is equipped with HDD drives. I'll continue
> > to repeat the tests and report variations.
>
> Hmm... I've checked out the commits in "git log v3.5..v3.6-rc1 --
> fs/ext4 fs/jbd2" and I don't see anything that I would expect would
> cause that. The are the lock elimination changes for Direct I/O
> overwrites, but that shouldn't matter for your tests which are
> measuring buffered writes, correct?
>
> Is there any chance you could do me a favor and do a git bisect
> restricted to commits involving fs/ext4 and fs/jbd2?

No problem :)

Thanks,
Fengguang


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