From: Andrea Vai <andrea.vai@unipv.it>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: "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>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>,
USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
SCSI development list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@cavium.com>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>, Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Hans Holmberg <Hans.Holmberg@wdc.com>,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: AW: Slow I/O on USB media after commit f664a3cc17b7d0a2bc3b3ab96181e1029b0ec0e6
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 18:34:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f82fd5129e3dcacae703a689be60b20a7fedadf6.camel@unipv.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191128091712.GD15549@ming.t460p>
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Il giorno gio, 28/11/2019 alle 17.17 +0800, Ming Lei ha scritto:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 08:46:57AM +0100, Andrea Vai wrote:
> > Il giorno mer, 27/11/2019 alle 08.14 +0000, Schmid, Carsten ha
> > scritto:
> > > >
> > > > > Then I started another set of 100 trials and let them run
> > > tonight, and
> > > > > the first 10 trials were around 1000s, then gradually
> decreased
> > > to
> > > > > ~300s, and finally settled around 200s with some trials
> below
> > > 70-80s.
> > > > > This to say, times are extremely variable and for the first
> time
> > > I
> > > > > noticed a sort of "performance increase" with time.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > The sheer volume of testing (probably some terabytes by now)
> would
> > > > exercise the wear leveling algorithm in the FTL.
> > > >
> > > But with "old kernel" the copy operation still is "fast", as far
> as
> > > i understood.
> > > If FTL (e.g. wear leveling) would slow down, we would see that
> also
> > > in
> > > the old kernel, right?
> > >
> > > Andrea, can you confirm that the same device used with the old
> fast
> > > kernel is still fast today?
> >
> > Yes, it is still fast. Just ran a 100 trials test and got an
> average
> > of 70 seconds with standard deviation = 6 seconds, aligned with
> the
> > past values of the same kernel.
>
> Then can you collect trace on the old kernel via the previous
> script?
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> MAJ=$1
> MIN=$2
> MAJ=$(( $MAJ << 20 ))
> DEV=$(( $MAJ | $MIN ))
>
> /usr/share/bcc/tools/trace -t -C \
> 't:block:block_rq_issue (args->dev == '$DEV') "%s %d %d", args-
> >rwbs, args->sector, args->nr_sector' \
> 't:block:block_rq_insert (args->dev == '$DEV') "%s %d %d", args-
> >rwbs, args->sector, args->nr_sector'
>
> Both the two trace points and bcc should be available on the old
> kernel.
>
Trace attached. Produced by: start the trace script
(with the pendrive already plugged), wait some seconds, run the test
(1 trial, 1 GB), wait for the test to finish, stop the trace.
The copy took 73 seconds, roughly as already seen before with the fast
old kernel.
Thanks,
Andrea
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[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 [this message]
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
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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