Re: Huge ubi or ubifs sync slowdown since 2.6.32

2010-12-22 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 11:36 +1300, Charles Manning wrote:
 Hi All
 
 I've been looking into a ubifs performance regression on linux-omap 2.6.37.
 
 My test is pretty simple, copy a 2Mbyte file and sync.
 
 # sync; date; cp 2Mbyte-file foo; sync; date
 
 On 2.6.32 and earler, the time between the two dates was around 3 seconds.
 On linux-omap master it is around 14 seconds. Ouch!
 
 At first I thought the problem was due to changes in the OMAP nand drivers, 
 but raw randwrite speed is actually a bit faster. This suggest the finger 
 should be pointed at ubi or ubifs.
 
 I then thought that perhaps the layout of my ubinized image might be a 
 contributing factor so I erased the partition, ubiformatted and ubimkvoled. 
 The problem persisted,
 
 Any suggestions as to what might be broken or how to debug this deeper?

Can you try this on nandsim and see if there are still differences? You
can make nandsim slower by injecting an udelay somewhere. Try this on
your x86 host - this way you'll narrow this down to an OMAP-specific or
platform-independent problem.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-omap in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


Huge ubi or ubifs sync slowdown since 2.6.32

2010-12-20 Thread Charles Manning

Hi All

I've been looking into a ubifs performance regression on linux-omap 2.6.37.

My test is pretty simple, copy a 2Mbyte file and sync.

# sync; date; cp 2Mbyte-file foo; sync; date

On 2.6.32 and earler, the time between the two dates was around 3 seconds.
On linux-omap master it is around 14 seconds. Ouch!

At first I thought the problem was due to changes in the OMAP nand drivers, 
but raw randwrite speed is actually a bit faster. This suggest the finger 
should be pointed at ubi or ubifs.

I then thought that perhaps the layout of my ubinized image might be a 
contributing factor so I erased the partition, ubiformatted and ubimkvoled. 
The problem persisted,

Any suggestions as to what might be broken or how to debug this deeper?

Thanks

Charles



--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-omap in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html