From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fadvise: perform WILLNEED readahead in a workqueue
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:13:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130222211308.GA13037@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5127A0A3.6040904@ubuntu.com>
Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:54:48AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> >> "strace -T" timing on an uncached, one gigabyte file:
> >>
> >> Before: fadvise64(3, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) = 0 <2.484832>
> >> After: fadvise64(3, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) = 0 <0.000061>
>
> It shouldn't take 2 seconds to queue up some async reads. Are you
> using ext3? The blocks have to be mapped in order to queue the reads,
> and without ext4 extents, this means the indirect blocks have to be
> read and can cause fadvise to block.
You're right, I originally tested on ext3.
I just tested an unpatched 3.7.9 kernel with ext4 and is much faster
(~250ms). I consider ~250ms acceptable for my needs. Will migrate
the rest of my setup to ext4 soon, thanks for the tip!
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-22 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-15 0:54 Eric Wong
2012-12-15 22:34 ` Alan Cox
2012-12-16 0:25 ` Eric Wong
2012-12-16 3:03 ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-16 3:35 ` Eric Wong
2012-12-16 4:15 ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-16 5:23 ` Eric Wong
2012-12-16 21:31 ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-16 8:48 ` Zheng Liu
2012-12-16 2:45 ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-16 3:04 ` Eric Wong
2012-12-16 3:09 ` Eric Wong
2012-12-16 3:36 ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-16 3:59 ` Eric Wong
2012-12-16 4:26 ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-16 5:17 ` Eric Wong
2013-02-22 16:45 ` Phillip Susi
2013-02-22 21:13 ` Eric Wong [this message]
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