From: Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de>
To: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
qkrwngud825@gmail.com, Kernel-team@fb.com,
Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MD: make bio mergeable
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:23:54 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.20.1604290915560.24906@diagnostix.dwd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160428211908.GA3116523@devbig084.prn1.facebook.com>
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Shaohua Li wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 08:00:22PM +0000, Holger Kiehl wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Shaohua Li wrote:
> >
> > > blk_queue_split marks bio unmergeable, which makes sense for normal bio.
> > > But if dispatching the bio to underlayer disk, the blk_queue_split
> > > checks are invalid, hence it's possible the bio becomes mergeable.
> > >
> > > In the reported bug, this bug causes trim against raid0 performance slash
> > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117051
> > >
> > This patch makes a huge difference. On a system with two Samsung 850 Pro
> > in a MD Raid0 setup the time for fstrim went down from ~30min to 18sec!
> >
> > However, on another system with two Intel P3700 1.6TB NVMe PCIe SSD's
> > also setup as one big MD Raid0, the patch does not make any difference
> > at all. fstrim takes more then 4 hours!
>
> Does the raid0 cross two partitions or two SSD?
>
Two SSD's. Where it works, for the two Samsung 850 Pro SATA SSD it was
via partitions.
> can you post blktrace data in the bugzilloa, I'll track the bug there.
>
I did the blktrace on the two md raid0 devices /dev/nvme[01]n1 for 2 minutes
and attached them to the bug 117051 as a tar.bz2 file:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117051
Please just ask if I have forgotten anything. And many thanks for looking
at this and all the good work!
Regards,
Holger
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-29 9:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-25 23:52 [PATCH] MD: make bio mergeable Shaohua Li
2016-04-26 0:59 ` Jens Axboe
2016-04-26 1:15 ` Jens Axboe
2016-04-26 9:56 ` Ming Lei
2016-04-26 14:21 ` Jens Axboe
2016-04-26 15:17 ` Ming Lei
2016-04-28 20:00 ` Holger Kiehl
2016-04-28 21:19 ` Shaohua Li
2016-04-29 9:23 ` Holger Kiehl [this message]
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