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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Vai <andrea.vai@unipv.it>,
	"Schmid, Carsten" <Carsten_Schmid@mentor.com>,
	Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>,
	Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
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	Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>,
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	Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@cavium.com>,
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	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
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Subject: Re: AW: Slow I/O on USB media after commit f664a3cc17b7d0a2bc3b3ab96181e1029b0ec0e6
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 22:30:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191226033057.GA10794@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191226022702.GA2901@ming.t460p>

On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 10:27:02AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> Maybe we need to be careful for HDD., since the request count in scheduler
> queue is double of in-flight request count, and in theory NCQ should only
> cover all in-flight 32 requests. I will find a sata HDD., and see if
> performance drop can be observed in the similar 'cp' test.

Please try to measure it, but I'd be really surprised if it's
significant with with modern HDD's.  That because they typically have
a queue depth of 16, and a max_sectors_kb of 32767 (e.g., just under
32 MiB).  Sort seeks are typically 1-2 ms, with full stroke seeks
8-10ms.  Typical sequential write speeds on a 7200 RPM drive is
125-150 MiB/s.  So suppose every other request sent to the HDD is from
the other request stream.  The disk will chose the 8 requests from its
queue that are contiguous, and so it will be writing around 256 MiB,
which will take 2-3 seconds.  If it then needs to spend between 1 and
10 ms seeking to another location of the disk, before it writes the
next 256 MiB, the worst case overhead of that seek is 10ms / 2s, or
0.5%.  That may very well be within your measurements' error bars.

And of course, note that in real life, we are very *often* writing to
multiple files in parallel, for example, during a "make -j16" while
building the kernel.  Writing a single large file is certainly
something people do (but even there people who are burning a 4G DVD
rip are often browsing the web while they are waiting for it to
complete, and the browser will be writing cache files, etc.).  So
whether or not this is something where we should be stressing over
this specific workload is going to be quite debateable.

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-26  3:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <307581a490b610c3025ee80f79a465a89d68ed19.camel@unipv.it>
2019-08-20 17:13 ` Slow I/O on USB media after commit f664a3cc17b7d0a2bc3b3ab96181e1029b0ec0e6 Alan Stern
2019-08-23 10:39   ` Andrea Vai
2019-08-23 20:42     ` Alan Stern
2019-08-26  6:09       ` Andrea Vai
2019-08-26 16:33         ` Alan Stern
2019-09-18 15:25           ` Andrea Vai
2019-09-18 16:30             ` Alan Stern
2019-09-19  7:33               ` Andrea Vai
2019-09-19 17:54                 ` Alan Stern
2019-09-20  7:25                   ` Andrea Vai
2019-09-20  7:44                     ` Greg KH
2019-09-19  8:26               ` Damien Le Moal
2019-09-19  8:55                 ` Ming Lei
2019-09-19  9:09                   ` Damien Le Moal
2019-09-19  9:21                     ` Ming Lei
2019-09-19 14:01                 ` Alan Stern
2019-09-19 14:14                   ` Damien Le Moal
2019-09-20  7:03                     ` Andrea Vai
2019-09-25 19:30                       ` Alan Stern
2019-09-25 19:36                         ` Jens Axboe
2019-09-27 15:47                           ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-04 16:00                             ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-04 18:20                               ` Alan Stern
2019-11-05 11:48                                 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-05 18:31                                   ` Alan Stern
2019-11-05 23:29                                     ` Jens Axboe
2019-11-06 16:03                                       ` Alan Stern
2019-11-06 22:13                                         ` Damien Le Moal
2019-11-07  7:04                                           ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-07  7:54                                             ` Damien Le Moal
2019-11-07 18:59                                               ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-08  8:42                                                 ` Damien Le Moal
2019-11-08 14:33                                                   ` Jens Axboe
2019-11-11 10:46                                                     ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-09 10:09                                                   ` Ming Lei
2019-11-09 22:28                                                 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-11 10:50                                                   ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-11 11:05                                                     ` Ming Lei
2019-11-11 11:13                                                       ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-22 19:16                                                   ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-23  7:28                                                     ` Ming Lei
2019-11-23 15:44                                                       ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-25  3:54                                                         ` Ming Lei
2019-11-25 10:11                                                           ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-25 10:29                                                             ` Ming Lei
2019-11-25 14:58                                                               ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-25 15:15                                                                 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-25 18:51                                                                   ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-26  2:32                                                                     ` Ming Lei
2019-11-26  7:46                                                                       ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-26  9:15                                                                         ` Ming Lei
2019-11-26 10:24                                                                           ` Ming Lei
2019-11-26 11:14                                                                           ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-27  2:05                                                                             ` Ming Lei
2019-11-27  9:39                                                                               ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-27 13:08                                                                                 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-27 15:01                                                                                   ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-27  0:21                                                                         ` Finn Thain
2019-11-27  8:14                                                                           ` AW: " Schmid, Carsten
2019-11-27 21:49                                                                             ` Finn Thain
2019-11-28  7:46                                                                             ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-28  8:12                                                                               ` AW: " Schmid, Carsten
2019-11-28 11:40                                                                                 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-28 17:39                                                                                 ` Alan Stern
2019-11-28  9:17                                                                               ` Ming Lei
2019-11-28 17:34                                                                                 ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-29  0:57                                                                                   ` Ming Lei
2019-11-29  2:35                                                                                     ` Ming Lei
2019-11-29 14:41                                                                                       ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-03  2:23                                                                                         ` Ming Lei
2019-12-10  7:35                                                                                           ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-10  8:05                                                                                             ` Ming Lei
2019-12-11  2:41                                                                                               ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-11  4:00                                                                                                 ` Ming Lei
2019-12-11 16:07                                                                                                   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-11 21:33                                                                                                     ` Ming Lei
2019-12-12  7:34                                                                                                       ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-18  8:25                                                                                                       ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-18  9:48                                                                                                         ` Ming Lei
     [not found]                                                                                                           ` <b1b6a0e9d690ecd9432025acd2db4ac09f834040.camel@unipv.it>
2019-12-23 13:08                                                                                                             ` Ming Lei
2019-12-23 14:02                                                                                                               ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-24  1:32                                                                                                                 ` Ming Lei
2019-12-24  8:04                                                                                                                   ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-24  8:47                                                                                                                     ` Ming Lei
2019-12-23 16:26                                                                                                               ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-23 16:29                                                                                                                 ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-23 17:22                                                                                                                   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-23 18:45                                                                                                                     ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-23 19:53                                                                                                                       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-24  1:27                                                                                                                         ` Ming Lei
2019-12-24  6:49                                                                                                                           ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-24  8:51                                                                                                                           ` Andrea Vai
2019-12-24  9:35                                                                                                                             ` Ming Lei
2019-12-25  5:17                                                                                                                           ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-26  2:27                                                                                                                             ` Ming Lei
2019-12-26  3:30                                                                                                                               ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2019-12-26  8:37                                                                                                                                 ` Ming Lei
2020-01-07  7:51                                                                                                                                   ` Andrea Vai
     [not found]                                                                                                                                 ` <20200101074310.10904-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2020-01-01 13:53                                                                                                                                   ` slow IO on USB media Ming Lei
2019-11-29 11:44                                                                                     ` AW: Slow I/O on USB media after commit f664a3cc17b7d0a2bc3b3ab96181e1029b0ec0e6 Bernd Schubert
2019-12-02  7:01                                                                                       ` Andrea Vai
2019-11-28 17:10                                                                           ` Andrea Vai

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