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From: Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.jiang@linux.dev>
To: antlists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>,
	"Finlayson, James M CIV (USA)" <james.m.finlayson4.civ@mail.mil>,
	'Marcin Wanat' <marcin.wanat@gmail.com>,
	"linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: Slow initial resync in RAID6 with 36 SAS drives
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 09:50:55 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8eee1bd-673e-dd68-d393-5e1c07415117@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18699120-fb61-35e2-3b27-975773f3216a@youngman.org.uk>



On 9/1/21 9:22 AM, antlists wrote:
> On 25/08/2021 11:28, Finlayson, James M CIV (USA) wrote:
>> I'm not a person necessarily in the "know", but I mess with these in 
>> udev  for SSDs:
>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="md*", 
>> ATTR{md/sync_speed_max}="2000000",ATTR{md/group_thread_cnt}="64", 
>> ATTR{md/stripe_cache_size}="8192"
>>
>> Guidance on why I change the values this way - educated "guess", as 
>> I'm an experienced practitioner at best and not someone that messes 
>> with the code......I've seen resync rates as high as 900MB/s 
>> sustained on my SSD mdraids, even though the SSDs should be able to 
>> sustain higher.....
>
> Not raid, but I've picked up on comments (on LWN?) that certain 
> file-systems are very much "single threaded" in their behaviour. I 
> strongly suspect that md-raid predates common multi-cpu/multi-core 
> systems, and I've heard somewhere that md-raid doesn't thread that well.

Yes and no, raid5 does support multi-threading if group_thread_cnt > 0, 
but IIUC, only one thread (mdx_resync) deals with resync IO.

Thanks,
Guoqing

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-01  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-19  9:28 Slow initial resync in RAID6 with 36 SAS drives Marcin Wanat
2021-08-25 10:06 ` Marcin Wanat
2021-08-25 10:28   ` [Non-DoD Source] " Finlayson, James M CIV (USA)
2021-09-01  1:22     ` antlists
2021-09-01  1:50       ` Guoqing Jiang [this message]
2021-09-01  5:19   ` Song Liu
2021-09-03  0:58     ` Song Liu
2021-09-03  2:56       ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-04 15:24       ` Marcin Wanat

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