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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:19:41 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Adam Migus" <adam@migus.org>
To:        <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        <paul@iconoplex.co.uk>, <das@FreeBSD.ORG>, <hiten@unixdaemons.com>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Disk scheduling in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <49978.192.168.4.2.1046845181.squirrel@mail.migus.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030228125613.A711@odysseus.silby.com>
References:  <IPEDKJGCDFHOPEFKLIDHOEAHCDAA.paul@iconoplex.co.uk> <20030228125613.A711@odysseus.silby.com>

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Mike,
I don't have the test, but I've built a generic performance
testing framework for FreeBSD over the past couple of months
that would make running such a test trivial.  I'd post a link
but the page has no permanent home yet.  When it gets one I can
follow it up with a link.

For now, the application called "boot_tester" allows the user to
run a set of commands (usually performance tests) on boot.  The
framework optionally creates a new filesystem work area and
outputs in a standard format.  The commands are run for n
iterations (one per boot) over an array of kernels.  If used
with the diskless testbed setup I've started developing to use
with it, running tests over arbitrary worlds as well as kernels
is trivial and can be automated.

If anyone's interested, contact me.  Like I said, I'll put up a
link when I get a home for the pages.

<quote who="Mike Silbersack">
>
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Paul Robinson wrote:
>
>> Well, I'm just a hanger-on without a commit bit, so I'll
>> work on making it production ready in the next few weeks,
>> post up a patch and if somebody wants to commit it, great.
>> At the moment it's all based on 4.3-RELEASE and isn't really
>> production ready. It does look worth doing though.
>
> Make an easy to run testbench which should show the
> performance
> improvements / disadvantages of a new IO scheduler first;
> that's really the first step.
>
> Mike "Silby" Silbersack
>
>
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