From: Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@suse.com>
To: "linux-lvm@redhat.com" <linux-lvm@redhat.com>,
"prajnoha@redhat.com" <prajnoha@redhat.com>
Cc: "bmarzins@redhat.com" <bmarzins@redhat.com>,
"teigland@redhat.com" <teigland@redhat.com>,
"zkabelac@redhat.com" <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Discussion: performance issue on event activation mode
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 07:41:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <074e7d61fac100ef3bdb49edb2a29b4b6a666ef3.camel@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7e91a1e8-2379-a33c-1482-b31adaa7bc8b@suse.com>
On Thu, 2021-09-30 at 23:32 +0800, heming.zhao@suse.com wrote:
> > I just want to say that some of the issues might simply be
> > regressions/issues with systemd/udev that could be fixed. We as
> > providers of block device abstractions where we need to handle,
> > sometimes, thousands of devices, might be the first ones to hit these
> > issues.
> >
>
> The rhel8 callgrind picture
> (https://prajnoha.fedorapeople.org/bz1986158/rhel8_libudev_critical_cost.png
> )
> responds to my analysis:
> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2021-June/msg00022.html
> handle_db_line took too much time and become the hotspot.
I missed that post. You wrote
> the dev_cache_scan doesn't have direct disk IOs, but libudev will
scan/read
> udev db which issue real disk IOs (location is /run/udev/data).
> ...
> 2. scans/reads udev db (/run/udev/data). may O(n)
> udev will call device_read_db => handle_db_line to handle every
> line of a db file.
> ...
> I didn't test the related udev code, and guess the <2> takes too much
time.
... but note that /run/udev is on tmpfs, not on a real disk. So the
accesses should be very fast unless there's some locking happening.
Regards
Martin
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Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-06 6:15 [linux-lvm] Discussion: performance issue on event activation mode heming.zhao
2021-06-06 16:35 ` Roger Heflin
2021-06-07 10:27 ` Martin Wilck
2021-06-07 15:30 ` heming.zhao
2021-06-07 15:45 ` Martin Wilck
2021-06-07 20:52 ` Roger Heflin
2021-06-07 21:30 ` David Teigland
2021-06-08 8:26 ` Martin Wilck
2021-06-08 15:39 ` David Teigland
2021-06-08 15:47 ` Martin Wilck
2021-06-08 16:02 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2021-06-08 16:05 ` Martin Wilck
2021-06-08 16:03 ` David Teigland
2021-06-08 16:07 ` Martin Wilck
2021-06-15 17:03 ` David Teigland
2021-06-15 18:21 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2021-06-16 16:18 ` heming.zhao
2021-06-16 16:38 ` David Teigland
2021-06-17 3:46 ` heming.zhao
2021-06-17 15:27 ` David Teigland
2021-06-08 16:49 ` heming.zhao
2021-06-08 16:18 ` heming.zhao
2021-06-09 4:01 ` heming.zhao
2021-06-09 5:37 ` Heming Zhao
2021-06-09 18:59 ` David Teigland
2021-06-10 17:23 ` heming.zhao
2021-06-07 15:48 ` Martin Wilck
2021-06-07 16:31 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2021-06-07 21:48 ` David Teigland
2021-06-08 12:29 ` Peter Rajnoha
2021-06-08 13:23 ` Martin Wilck
2021-06-08 13:41 ` Peter Rajnoha
2021-06-08 13:46 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2021-06-08 13:56 ` Peter Rajnoha
2021-06-08 14:23 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2021-06-08 14:48 ` Martin Wilck
2021-06-08 15:19 ` Peter Rajnoha
2021-06-08 15:39 ` Martin Wilck
2021-09-09 19:44 ` David Teigland
2021-09-10 17:38 ` Martin Wilck
2021-09-12 16:51 ` heming.zhao
2021-09-27 10:00 ` Peter Rajnoha
2021-09-27 15:38 ` David Teigland
2021-09-28 6:34 ` Martin Wilck
2021-09-28 14:42 ` David Teigland
2021-09-28 15:16 ` Martin Wilck
2021-09-28 15:31 ` Martin Wilck
2021-09-28 15:56 ` David Teigland
2021-09-28 18:03 ` Benjamin Marzinski
2021-09-28 17:42 ` Benjamin Marzinski
2021-09-28 19:15 ` Martin Wilck
2021-09-29 22:06 ` Peter Rajnoha
2021-09-30 7:51 ` Martin Wilck
2021-09-30 8:07 ` heming.zhao
2021-09-30 9:31 ` Martin Wilck
2021-09-30 11:41 ` Peter Rajnoha
2021-09-30 15:32 ` heming.zhao
2021-10-01 7:41 ` Martin Wilck [this message]
2021-10-01 8:08 ` Peter Rajnoha
2021-09-30 11:29 ` Peter Rajnoha
2021-09-30 16:04 ` David Teigland
2021-09-30 14:41 ` Benjamin Marzinski
2021-10-01 7:42 ` Martin Wilck
2021-09-29 21:53 ` Peter Rajnoha
2021-09-30 7:45 ` Martin Wilck
2021-09-29 21:39 ` Peter Rajnoha
2021-09-30 7:22 ` Martin Wilck
2021-09-30 14:26 ` David Teigland
2021-09-30 15:55 ` David Teigland
2021-10-01 8:00 ` Peter Rajnoha
2021-10-18 6:24 ` Martin Wilck
2021-10-18 15:04 ` David Teigland
2021-10-18 16:56 ` heming.zhao
2021-10-18 21:51 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2021-10-19 17:18 ` David Teigland
2021-10-20 14:40 ` Martin Wilck
2021-10-20 14:50 ` David Teigland
2021-10-20 14:54 ` Martin Wilck
2021-10-20 15:12 ` David Teigland
2021-06-07 16:40 ` David Teigland
2021-07-02 21:09 ` David Teigland
2021-07-02 21:22 ` Martin Wilck
2021-07-02 22:02 ` David Teigland
2021-07-03 11:49 ` heming.zhao
2021-07-08 10:10 ` Tom Yan
2021-07-02 21:31 ` Tom Yan
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