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Date:      Fri, 20 Mar 2015 20:46:56 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, d@delphij.net
Cc:        John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RELENG_10 performance regression (was Re: 35-40% performance drop releng9 vs releng10 openvpn
Message-ID:  <550CBF80.6030809@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <20150321001559.GB2379@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <5506250A.2000506@sentex.net> <20150316132055.GQ32288@funkthat.com> <5509D6C6.4050204@sentex.net> <20150318211457.GL51048@funkthat.com> <550B6950.8060806@sentex.net> <550C5AAF.9060502@sentex.net> <550C8AEE.4090408@sentex.net> <550CB306.7030405@delphij.net> <20150321001559.GB2379@kib.kiev.ua>

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On 3/20/2015 8:15 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>>
>> For the purpose of devfs, does it make sense to bump timestamps like
>> normal filesystems for each read/write operation?  Looks like Mac OS X
>> will bump timestamps for each operation but Debian don't.
>
> First question is, what timecounter hardware is used.  I would accept
> some slowdown from hardware like HPET, but it is indeed surprising
> if caused by TSC.
>
>

David Wolfskill suggested trying the problem commit with

vfs.timestamp_precision=0

and it does indeed restore performance to what it was.  The raw dtrace 
files are available and FlameGraphs can all be found at

http://tancsa.com/time/

	---Mike
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