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From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	"Wangkai (Kevin C)" <wangkai86@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] fs/dcache: Track & limit # of negative dentries
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 23:02:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56b1d7ee-d362-f915-34fb-92173d512cbe@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180706222814.GE30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On 07/06/2018 06:28 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 03:32:45PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>
>> With a 4.18 based kernel, the positive & negative dentries lookup rates
>> (lookups per second) after initial boot on a 2-socket 24-core 48-thread
>> 64GB memory system with and without the patch were as follows: `
>>
>>   Metric                    w/o patch  neg_dentry_pc=0  neg_dentry_pc=1
>>   ------                    ---------  ---------------  ---------------
>>   Positive dentry lookup      584299       586749	   582670
>>   Negative dentry lookup     1422204      1439994	  1438440
>>   Negative dentry creation    643535       652194	   641841
>>
>> For the lookup rate, there isn't any signifcant difference with or
>> without the patch or with a zero or non-zero value of neg_dentry_pc.
> Sigh...  What I *still* don't see (after all the iterations of the patchset)
> is any performance data on workloads that would be likely to feel the impact.
> Anything that seriously hits INCLUDE_PATH, for starters...

I wrote a simple microbenchmark that does a lot of open() system calls
to create positive or negative dentries. I was not seeing any noticeable
performance difference as long as not too many negative dentries were
created.

Please enlighten me on how kind of performance benchmark that you would
like me to run.

Thanks,
Longman

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-07  3:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-06 19:32 [PATCH v6 0/7] fs/dcache: Track & limit # of negative dentries Waiman Long
2018-07-06 19:32 ` [PATCH v6 1/7] fs/dcache: Track & report number " Waiman Long
2018-07-06 19:32 ` [PATCH v6 2/7] fs/dcache: Add sysctl parameter neg-dentry-pc as a soft limit on " Waiman Long
2018-07-06 19:32 ` [PATCH v6 3/7] fs/dcache: Enable automatic pruning of " Waiman Long
2018-07-06 19:32 ` [PATCH v6 4/7] fs/dcache: Spread negative dentry pruning across multiple CPUs Waiman Long
2018-07-06 19:32 ` [PATCH v6 5/7] fs/dcache: Add negative dentries to LRU head initially Waiman Long
2018-07-06 19:32 ` [PATCH v6 6/7] fs/dcache: Allow optional enforcement of negative dentry limit Waiman Long
2018-07-06 19:32 ` [PATCH v6 7/7] fs/dcache: Allow deconfiguration of negative dentry code to reduce kernel size Waiman Long
2018-07-06 21:54   ` Eric Biggers
2018-07-06 22:28 ` [PATCH v6 0/7] fs/dcache: Track & limit # of negative dentries Al Viro
2018-07-07  3:02   ` Waiman Long [this message]
2018-07-09  8:19 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-09 16:01   ` Waiman Long
2018-07-10 14:27     ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-10 16:09       ` Waiman Long
2018-07-11 10:21         ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-11 15:13           ` Waiman Long
2018-07-11 17:42             ` James Bottomley
2018-07-11 19:07               ` Waiman Long
2018-07-11 19:21                 ` James Bottomley
2018-07-12 15:54                   ` Waiman Long
2018-07-12 16:04                     ` James Bottomley
2018-07-12 16:26                       ` Waiman Long
2018-07-12 17:33                         ` James Bottomley
2018-07-13 15:32                           ` Waiman Long
2018-07-12 16:49                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-07-12 17:21                         ` James Bottomley
2018-07-12 18:06                           ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-12 19:57                             ` James Bottomley
2018-07-13  0:36                               ` Dave Chinner
2018-07-13 15:46                                 ` James Bottomley
2018-07-13 23:17                                   ` Dave Chinner
2018-07-16  9:10                                   ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-16 14:42                                     ` James Bottomley
2018-07-16  9:09                                 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-16  9:12                                   ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-16 12:41                                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-07-16 23:40                                     ` Andrew Morton
2018-07-17  1:30                                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-07-17  8:33                                       ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-19  0:33                                         ` Dave Chinner
2018-07-19  8:45                                           ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-19  9:13                                             ` Jan Kara
2018-07-18 18:39                                       ` Waiman Long
2018-07-18 16:17                                   ` Waiman Long
2018-07-19  8:48                                     ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-12  8:48             ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-12 16:12               ` Waiman Long
2018-07-12 23:16                 ` Andrew Morton

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