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From: "Norman.Kern" <norman.kern@gmx.com>
To: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk,
	linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Large latency with bcache for Ceph OSD
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 10:03:50 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8eb6739c-090d-f925-333e-df34a6d05101@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <04770825-b1d2-8ec0-2345-77d49d99631a@suse.de>


On 2021/2/26 下午5:54, Coly Li wrote:
> On 2/26/21 4:57 PM, Norman.Kern wrote:
> [snipped]
>>> You may try to trigger a gc by writing to
>>> sys/fs/bcache/<cache-set-uuid>/internal/trigger_gc
>>>
>> When all cache had written back, I triggered gc, it recalled.
>>
>> root@WXS0106:~# cat /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/cache/cache_available_percent
>> 30
>>
>> root@WXS0106:~# echo 1 > /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/cache/internal/trigger_gc
>> root@WXS0106:~# cat /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/cache/cache_available_percent
>> 97
>>
>> Why must I trigger gc manually? Is not a default action of bcache-gc thread? And I found it can only work when all dirty data written back.
>>
> 1, GC is automatically triggered after some mount of data consumed. I
> guess it is just not about time in your situation.
>
> 2, Because the gc will shrink all cached clean data, which is very
> unfriendly for read-intend workload. Therefore gc_after_writeback is
> defaulted as 0, when this sysfs file content set to 1, a gc will trigger
> after the writeback accomplished.

I made a test again and get more infomation:

root@WXS0089:~# cat /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/dirty_data
0.0k
root@WXS0089:~# lsblk /dev/sda
NAME      MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda         8:0    0 447.1G  0 disk
`-bcache0 252:0    0  10.9T  0 disk
root@WXS0089:~# cat /sys/block/sda/bcache/priority_stats
Unused:         1%
Clean:          29%
Dirty:          70%
Metadata:       0%
Average:        49
Sectors per Q:  29184768
Quantiles:      [1 2 3 5 6 8 9 11 13 14 16 19 21 23 26 29 32 36 39 43 48 53 59 65 73 83 94 109 129 156 203]
root@WXS0089:~# cat /sys/fs/bcache/066319e1-8680-4b5b-adb8-49596319154b/internal/gc_after_writeback
1
You have new mail in /var/mail/root
root@WXS0089:~# cat /sys/fs/bcache/066319e1-8680-4b5b-adb8-49596319154b/cache_available_percent
28

I read the source codes and found if cache_available_percent > 50, it should wakeup gc while doing writeback, but it seemed not work right.

>
> Coly Li
>
>
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-03  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-18  7:56 Large latency with bcache for Ceph OSD Norman.Kern
2021-02-21 23:48 ` Norman.Kern
2021-02-24  8:52   ` Coly Li
2021-02-25  2:22     ` Norman.Kern
2021-02-25  2:23     ` Norman.Kern
2021-02-25 13:00       ` Norman.Kern
2021-02-25 14:44         ` Coly Li
2021-02-26  8:57           ` Norman.Kern
2021-02-26  9:54             ` Coly Li
2021-03-02  2:03               ` Norman.Kern [this message]
2021-03-02  5:30               ` Norman.Kern

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