From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261845AbTJWXH1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2003 19:07:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261850AbTJWXH1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2003 19:07:27 -0400 Received: from mail-03.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.35]:30388 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261845AbTJWXHZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2003 19:07:25 -0400 Message-ID: <3F985F18.4020808@cyberone.com.au> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:07:04 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Olien CC: rwhron@earthlink.net, venom@sns.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, Mary Edie Meredith Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] I/O regression after 2.6.0-test5 References: <20031021130501.GA4409@rushmore> <3F9653E6.4060209@cyberone.com.au> <20031022183028.GA10249@osdl.org> <3F973BC9.4080005@cyberone.com.au> <20031023203502.GA12778@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20031023203502.GA12778@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dave Olien wrote: >test5 didn't work with dbt2. The database run kept hanging. >I've been running reaim, which doesn't have those problems with >older kernels, but has shown similar performance problems. > >I need to also check again that reaim and dbt2 still show similar >performance issues with newer kernel versions. > >I've lost my test machine for today. But I'll try test5 as-iosched >in a test8 kernel with reaim tomorrow. If it works well, I'll try your >following patch. Probably get it in the mail tomorrow afternoon. > Hi Dave, Yeah thats right - I forgot. It was hanging because of as-iosched.c too, so don't bother trying to run it :( Anyway, Randy can reproduce regressions, so I'll work on his first.