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SubjectRe: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1
----- Original Message ----
> From: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
> To: Martin Knoblauch <knobi@knobisoft.de>
> Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl; LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 1:45:57 AM
> Subject: Re: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1
>
> On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 04:36 -0800, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > > From: "Zhang, Yanmin"
> > > To: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
> > > Cc: LKML
> > > Sent: Friday, November 9, 2007 10:47:52 AM
> > > Subject: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1
> > >
> > > Comparing with 2.6.23, iozone sequential write/rewrite (512M) has
> > > 50%
> > >
> > regression
> > > in kernel 2.6.24-rc1. 2.6.24-rc2 has the same regression.
> > >
> > > My machine has 8 processor cores and 8GB memory.
> > >
> > > By bisect, I located patch
> >
> >
>
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h
> =
> > > 04fbfdc14e5f48463820d6b9807daa5e9c92c51f.
> > >
> > >
> > > Another behavior: with kernel 2.6.23, if I run iozone for many
> > > times
> > >
> > after rebooting machine,
> > > the result looks stable. But with 2.6.24-rc1, the first run of
> > > iozone
> > >
> > got a very small result and
> > > following run has 4Xorig_result.
> > >
> > > What I reported is the regression of 2nd/3rd run, because first run
> > > has
> > >
> > bigger regression.
> > >
> > > I also tried to change
> > > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio,dirty_backgroud_ratio
> > >
> > and didn't get improvement.
> > could you tell us the exact iozone command you are using?
> iozone -i 0 -r 4k -s 512m
>

OK, I definitely do not see the reported effect. On a HP Proliant with a RAID5 on CCISS I get:

2.6.19.2: 654-738 MB/sec write, 1126-1154 MB/sec rewrite
2.6.24-rc2: 772-820 MB/sec write, 1495-1539 MB/sec rewrite

The first run is always slowest, all subsequent runs are faster and the same speed.

>
> > I would like to repeat it on my setup, because I definitely see
> the
>
opposite behaviour in 2.6.24-rc1/rc2. The speed there is much
> better
>
than in 2.6.22 and before (I skipped 2.6.23, because I was waiting
> for
>
the per-bdi changes). I definitely do not see the difference between
> 1st
>
and subsequent runs. But then, I do my tests with 5GB file sizes like:
> >
> > iozone3_283/src/current/iozone -t 5 -F /scratch/X1
> /scratch/X2
>
/scratch/X3 /scratch/X4 /scratch/X5 -s 5000M -r 1024 -c -e -i 0 -i 1
> My machine uses SATA (AHCI) disk.
>

4x72GB SCSI disks building a RAID5 on a CCISS controller with battery backed write cache. Systems are 2 CPUs (64-bit) with 8 GB memory. I could test on some IBM boxes (2x dual core, 8 GB) with RAID5 on "aacraid", but I need some time to free up one of the boxes.

Cheers
Martin



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