<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Samuel,<br></div>Thank you for feedback!<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Samuel J. Greear <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sjg@evilcode.net" target="_blank">sjg@evilcode.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Regarding the performance chart and testing so far, it's nice to know that the cpu overhead is well-bounded and these small tests likely worked well for simply making sure everything worked, but I wouldn't spend much/any time on this type of testing going forward, since these microbenchmarks only show cached performance -- the compressed numbers will basically always look like a net loss here (albeit it looks like a small one, which is good) -- the real numbers of interest are going to be performance of uncached benchmarks / benchmarks that cause a lot of real disk i/o. As you make it stable I would move onto things like fsstress, blogbench, bonnie, etc.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Regarding the microbenchmarks, I tried to reduce the effect of caching by reloading hammer2 module between each write/read test, so it should only take place on HAMMER partition, but not on HAMMER2.<br>
</div><div>I'll definitely do heavy I/O tests in the future.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra">If the code is stable enough I would be interested to hear what the performance delta is between a pair of dd if=/dev/zero bs=64k count=5000 or similar (as long as its much bigger than RAM) with zero-compression on vs off. In theory it should look similar to the delta between cached io and uncached io.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>OK, I'm putting this test into my TODO list.<br><br></div><div>Thank you.<br><br><br></div><div>Daniel<br></div></div></div></div>