From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272716AbTG3Em6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:42:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272731AbTG3Em6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:42:58 -0400 Received: from dsl2.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.7]:24595 "EHLO dsl2.external.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272716AbTG3Em5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:42:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:42:56 -0600 From: Grant Grundler To: Andi Kleen Cc: Grant Grundler , davem@redhat.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, axboe@suse.de, suparna@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alex_williamson@hp.com, bjorn_helgaas@hp.com Subject: Re: [RFC] block layer support for DMA IOMMU bypass mode II Message-ID: <20030730044256.GA1974@dsl2.external.hp.com> References: <20030708213427.39de0195.ak@suse.de> <20030708.150433.104048841.davem@redhat.com> <20030708222545.GC6787@dsl2.external.hp.com> <20030708.152314.115928676.davem@redhat.com> <20030723114006.GA28688@dsl2.external.hp.com> <20030728131513.5d4b1bd3.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030728131513.5d4b1bd3.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Home-Page: http://www.parisc-linux.org/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:15:13PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Run it with 100-500 users (reaim -f workfile... -s 100 -e 500 -i 100) jejb was wondering if 4k pages would cause different behaviors becuase of file system vs page size (4k vs 16k). ia64 uses 16k by default. I've rebuilt the kernel with 4k page size and VMERGE != 0. The substantially worse performance feels like a rat hole because of 4x pressure on CPU TLB. Ideally, we need a workload to test BIO code without a file system. Any suggestions? grant iota:/mnt# reaim -f /mnt/usr/local/share/reaim/workfile.new_dbase -s100 -e 500 -i 100 REAIM Workload Times are in seconds - Child times from tms.cstime and tms.cutime Num Parent Child Child Jobs per Jobs/min/ Std_dev Std_dev JTI Forked Time SysTime UTime Minute Child Time Percent 100 118.90 21.17 214.03 5197.78 51.98 4.52 3.98 96 200 236.75 42.54 429.94 5220.63 26.10 9.43 4.16 95 300 354.94 64.47 644.80 5223.34 17.41 14.47 4.27 95 400 474.50 87.01 861.09 5209.66 13.02 24.76 5.59 94 500 594.26 109.80 1077.00 5199.78 10.40 25.36 4.49 95 Max Jobs per Minute 5223.34 iota:/mnt#