Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Jun 2002 06:42:39 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.21 IDE 91 | From | rwhron@earthlin ... |
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>> > test the crap out of a kernel :).
>> Linux Test Project's runalltests.sh has occasionally triggered a bug.
> Is this still happening? What was the bug?
That's just a general suggestion with regard to kernel testing. Recent 2.5.x hasn't had a problem completing LTP runalltests.sh. I've used LTP to narrow down a couple early 2.4.x reiserfs bugs to a specific test case. LTP has occasionally triggered oops and livelocks too. It's a useful regression test.
>> 2.5 took a drop in dbench throughput recently. >> >> dbench ext2 128 processes Average High Low(MB/sec)
> Is this still with 384 megs of memory?
Yes.
> 2.5.19 18.60 21.69 14.58 > 2.5.20 12.89 13.15 12.79
> One possibile culprit here is the doubling of the request queue size > in 2.5.20. A long time ago it was 1024 slots. Then it went to > 128. That's where it is in Marcelo kernels. Then -ac kernels > went up to 1024 because they have read-latency2. Somehow 2.5 found > itself at 256 slots. In 2.5.20 it slealthily snuck up to 512 > slots. I didn't squeak about this because I was interested to see what > effect it would have.
Interesting. I've seen read-latency2 drop dbench throughput in -aa kernels (but I use it anyway). I'd like to capture the request queue size. Is there a command or file in /proc that displays it, or should I just grep drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c?
> Does this patch get the throughput back?
I will try that next.
-- Randy Hron
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