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Shaohua Li 765d704db1 raid5: only dispatch IO from raid5d for harddisk raid
We made raid5 stripe handling multi-thread before. It works well for
SSD. But for harddisk, the multi-threading creates more disk seek, so
not always improve performance. For several hard disks based raid5,
multi-threading is required as raid5d becames a bottleneck especially
for sequential write.

To overcome the disk seek issue, we only dispatch IO from raid5d if the
array is harddisk based. Other threads can still handle stripes, but
can't dispatch IO.

Idealy, we should control IO dispatching order according to IO position
interrnally. Right now we still depend on block layer, which isn't very
efficient sometimes though.

My setup has 9 harddisks, each disk can do around 180M/s sequential
write. So in theory, the raid5 can do 180 * 8 = 1440M/s sequential
write. The test machine uses an ATOM CPU. I measure sequential write
with large iodepth bandwidth to raid array:

without patch: ~600M/s
without patch and group_thread_cnt=4: 750M/s
with patch and group_thread_cnt=4: 950M/s
with patch, group_thread_cnt=4, skip_copy=1: 1150M/s

We are pretty close to the maximum bandwidth in the large iodepth
iodepth case. The performance gap of small iodepth sequential write
between software raid and theory value is still very big though, because
we don't have an efficient pipeline.

Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2017-02-13 09:17:50 -08:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-02-11 10:31:46 -08:00
block block: don't try Write Same from __blkdev_issue_zeroout 2017-02-06 09:34:46 -07:00
certs
crypto crypto: algif_aead - Fix kernel panic on list_del 2017-02-03 17:45:48 +08:00
Documentation media fixes for v4.10-rc8 2017-02-06 14:37:55 -08:00
drivers raid5: only dispatch IO from raid5d for harddisk raid 2017-02-13 09:17:50 -08:00
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fs Merge branch 'for-linus-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs 2017-02-11 09:15:58 -08:00
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ipc ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
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security selinux: fix off-by-one in setprocattr 2017-02-08 19:09:53 +11:00
sound ALSA: hda - adding a new NV HDMI/DP codec ID in the driver 2017-02-09 08:57:47 +01:00
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