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SubjectRe: Bad SSD performance with recent kernels
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Le lundi 30 janvier 2012 à 11:17 +0800, Shaohua Li a écrit :

> 1M block size is slow, I guess it's CPU related.
>
> And as for the big regression with newer kernel than 2.6.38, please
> check if idle=poll
> helps. CPU idle dramatically impacts disk performance and even latest
> cpuidle governor
> doesn't help for some CPUs.
>

No change with idle=poll

# echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches ;perf record dd if=/dev/sda
of=/dev/null bs=2M count=2048
2048+0 enregistrements lus
2048+0 enregistrements écrits
4294967296 octets (4,3 GB) copiés, 27,6942 s, 155 MB/s
[ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.884 MB perf.data (~38630 samples) ]

# perf report
Events: 22K
cycles
40,14% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] copy_user_generic_string
3,12% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_read_tsc
3,00% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] put_page
2,98% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] iowrite8
2,04% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] get_page_from_freelist
1,87% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] delay_tsc
1,77% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_alloc
1,69% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __mem_cgroup_commit_charge
1,52% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] submit_bh
1,38% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ioread8
1,32% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __rmqueue
1,29% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] block_read_full_page
1,28% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __ticket_spin_lock
1,23% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __slab_alloc
1,15% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] file_read_actor
0,85% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] generic_make_request.part.51
0,84% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
0,82% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] create_empty_buffers
0,81% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] get_partial_node
0,81% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] lookup_page_cgroup
0,78% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mem_cgroup_add_lru_list.part.45
0,72% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ____pagevec_lru_add_fn

# echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches ;perf record dd if=/dev/sda
of=/dev/null bs=1M count=4096
4096+0 enregistrements lus
4096+0 enregistrements écrits
4294967296 octets (4,3 GB) copiés, 25,8117 s, 166 MB/s
[ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.810 MB perf.data (~35398 samples) ]

# perf report
Events: 20K
cycles
31,91% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] copy_user_generic_string
3,87% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_read_tsc
3,58% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] iowrite8
2,43% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] put_page
2,30% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] delay_tsc
2,09% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] get_page_from_freelist
1,96% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __mem_cgroup_commit_charge
1,79% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] submit_bh
1,75% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_alloc
1,74% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ioread8
1,68% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] block_read_full_page
1,62% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __ticket_spin_lock
1,38% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __rmqueue
1,12% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] create_empty_buffers
1,08% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __slab_alloc
1,07% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] file_read_actor
1,06% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] generic_make_request.part.51
0,94% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] lookup_page_cgroup
0,85% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
0,85% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] find_get_page
0,83% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __lru_cache_add
0,81% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] add_to_page_cache_locked.part.29


# echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches ;perf record dd if=/dev/sda
of=/dev/null bs=128k count=32768
32768+0 enregistrements lus
32768+0 enregistrements écrits
4294967296 octets (4,3 GB) copiés, 19,6924 s, 218 MB/s
[ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.961 MB perf.data (~41992 samples) ]

# perf report
29,85% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] copy_user_generic_string
2,61% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __mem_cgroup_commit_charge
2,53% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] get_page_from_freelist
2,27% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] block_read_full_page
1,99% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __ticket_spin_lock
1,81% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_alloc
1,65% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] file_read_actor
1,60% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __rmqueue
1,58% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] put_page
1,51% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] submit_bh
1,37% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] create_empty_buffers
1,30% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] generic_make_request.part.51
1,09% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
1,06% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_generic_file_read.constprop.35
1,01% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] lookup_page_cgroup
1,00% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] add_to_page_cache_locked.part.29
0,93% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] find_get_page
0,92% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] blk_rq_map_sg
0,92% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] radix_tree_insert
0,89% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] alloc_pages_current
0,88% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mem_cgroup_add_lru_list.part.45
0,88% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] radix_tree_lookup_element



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