On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 10:19 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:48 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:05 +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
> > > On Nov. 12, 2007, 15:26 +0200, Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Single socket, dual core opteron, 2GB memory
> > > > Single SATA disk, ext3
> > > >
> > > > 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 #1 SMP
> > > >
> > > > 524288 4 225977 447461
> > > > 524288 4 232595 496848
> > > > 524288 4 220608 478076
> > > > 524288 4 203080 445230
> > > >
> > > > 2.6.24-rc2 #28 SMP PREEMPT
> > > >
> > > > 524288 4 54043 83585
> > > > 524288 4 69949 516253
> > > > 524288 4 72343 491416
> > > > 524288 4 71775 492653
> >
> > 2.6.24-rc2 +
> > patches/wu-reiser.patch
> > patches/writeback-early.patch
> > patches/bdi-task-dirty.patch
> > patches/bdi-sysfs.patch
> > patches/sched-hrtick.patch
> > patches/sched-rt-entity.patch
> > patches/sched-watchdog.patch
> > patches/linus-ext3-blockalloc.patch
> >
> > 524288 4 179657 487676
> > 524288 4 173989 465682
> > 524288 4 175842 489800
> >
> >
> > Linus' patch is the one that makes the difference here. So I'm unsure
> > how you bisected it down to:
> >
> > 04fbfdc14e5f48463820d6b9807daa5e9c92c51f
> Originally, my test suite is just to pick up the result of first run. Your prior
> patch(speed up writeback ramp-up on clean systems) fixed an issue about first
> run result regression. So my bisect captured it.
>
> However, late on, I found following run have different results. A moment ago,
> I retested 04fbfdc14e5f48463820d6b9807daa5e9c92c51f by:
> #git checkout 04fbfdc14e5f48463820d6b9807daa5e9c92c51f
> #make
>
> Then, reverse your patch. It looks like 04fbfdc14e5f48463820d6b9807daa5e9c92c51f
> is not the root cause of following run regression. I will change my test suite to
> make it run for many times and do a new bisect.
>
> > These results seem to point to
> >
> > 7c9e69faa28027913ee059c285a5ea8382e24b5d
My new bisect captured 7c9e69faa28027913ee059c285a5ea8382e24b5d
which caused the regression of iozone following run (3rd/4th... run after mounting
the ext3 partition).
Peter,
Where could I download Linus new patches, especially patches/linus-ext3-blockalloc.patch?
I couldn't find it in my archives of LKML mails.
yanmin
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