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SubjectRe: [PATCH V8 00/33] loop: Issue O_DIRECT aio using bio_vec
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 02:28:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:50:26 -0500 Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > This patch series adds a kernel interface to fs/aio.c so that kernel code can
>>>> > issue concurrent asynchronous IO to file systems. It adds an aio command and
>>>> > file system methods which specify io memory with pages instead of userspace
>>>> > addresses.
>>>> >
>>>> > This series was written to reduce the current overhead loop imposes by
>>>> > performing synchronus buffered file system IO from a kernel thread. These
>>>> > patches turn loop into a light weight layer that translates bios into iocbs.
>>>>
>>>> Do you have any performance numbers?
>>>>
>>
>> [ CC Al and Linux-next maintainer ]
>>
>> The more important question how to test and then provide performance numbers.
>> If you give me a test-case I give you numbers!
>>
>>>> Does anyone care much about loop performance? What's the value here?
>>>
>>> Yes. Anyone using loopback devices for file-backed devices exposed
>>> to containers and VMs cares about the memory and CPU overhead
>>> the double caching the existing loop device has.
>>>
>>
>> Yupp, I am here on Ubuntu/precise AMD64 in a so-called WUBI
>> environment which makes intensive usage of loopback-device plus FUSE
>> driver and $fs-of-your-choice (here: ext4).
>>
>> Today, I have pulled Dave's aio_loop GIT branch into v3.11-rc3.
>> After successful compilation I am running it right now.
>>
>> I had also tested v6 of the series [1] from February 2013 and
>> encouraged Dave to put it into Linux-next [2].
>> Unfortunately, there was no response from Al.
>> Again, Dave try to get it into Linux-next!
>>
>
> I have run runltp-lite from latest stable LTP (ltp-full-20130109), but
> this reports errors.
> I will see later if this happens with a vanilla v3.11-rc3.
>

These results look similiar, so aio_loop stuff seems to be OK.

- Sedat -

> See also attached files.
>
> - Sedat -
>
>> - Sedat -
>>
>> [1] http://marc.info/?t=135947707100013&r=1&w=4
>> [2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=136122569807203&w=4
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