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From: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Switching to MQ by default may generate some bug reports
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 11:44:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DAC70C00-B51D-4752-8EA7-EA55368918EC@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170803094242.wol67mmga3om4gjp@techsingularity.net>


> Il giorno 03 ago 2017, alle ore 11:42, Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> ha scritto:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 05:17:21PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
>> Hi Mel Gorman,
>> 
>> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> wrote:
>>> Hi Christoph,
>>> 
>>> I know the reasons for switching to MQ by default but just be aware that it's
>>> not without hazards albeit it the biggest issues I've seen are switching
>>> CFQ to BFQ. On my home grid, there is some experimental automatic testing
>>> running every few weeks searching for regressions. Yesterday, it noticed
>>> that creating some work files for a postgres simulator called pgioperf
>>> was 38.33% slower and it auto-bisected to the switch to MQ. This is just
>>> linearly writing two files for testing on another benchmark and is not
>>> remarkable. The relevant part of the report is
>> 
>> We saw some SCSI-MQ performance issue too, please see if the following
>> patchset fixes your issue:
>> 
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=150151989915776&w=2
>> 
> 
> That series is dealing with problems with legacy-deadline vs mq-none where
> as the bulk of the problems reported in this mail are related to
> legacy-CFQ vs mq-BFQ.
> 

Out-of-curiosity: you get no regression with mq-none or mq-deadline?

Thanks,
Paolo

> -- 
> Mel Gorman
> SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-03  9:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-03  8:51 Switching to MQ by default may generate some bug reports Mel Gorman
2017-08-03  9:17 ` Ming Lei
2017-08-03  9:32   ` Ming Lei
2017-08-03  9:42   ` Mel Gorman
2017-08-03  9:44     ` Paolo Valente [this message]
2017-08-03 10:46       ` Mel Gorman
2017-08-03  9:57     ` Ming Lei
2017-08-03 10:47       ` Mel Gorman
2017-08-03 11:48         ` Ming Lei
2017-08-03  9:21 ` Paolo Valente
2017-08-03 11:01   ` Mel Gorman
2017-08-04  7:26     ` Paolo Valente
2017-08-04 11:01       ` Mel Gorman
2017-08-04 22:05         ` Paolo Valente
2017-08-05 11:54           ` Mel Gorman
2017-08-07 17:35             ` Paolo Valente
2017-08-07 17:32           ` Paolo Valente
2017-08-07 18:42             ` Paolo Valente
2017-08-08  8:06               ` Paolo Valente
2017-08-08 17:33                 ` Paolo Valente
2017-08-08 18:27                   ` Mel Gorman
2017-08-09 21:49                   ` Paolo Valente
2017-08-10  8:44                     ` Mel Gorman
2017-08-08 10:30             ` Mel Gorman
2017-08-08 10:43               ` Ming Lei
2017-08-08 11:27                 ` Mel Gorman
2017-08-08 11:49                   ` Ming Lei
2017-08-08 11:55                     ` Mel Gorman
2017-08-08 17:16               ` Paolo Valente

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