Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:55:50 +0900 | From | Kazuo Ito <> | Subject | Re: [dm-devel] Re: [PATCH] dm-snapshot: poor copy-on-write performance due to I/O reordering |
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Hello,
> Bodo Eggert wrote: >> Kazuo Ito <ito.kazuo@oss.ntt.co.jp> wrote: >> >>> Write throughput to LVM snapshot origin volume is an order >>> of magnitude slower than those to LV without snapshots or >>> snapshot target volumes, especially in the case of sequential >>> writes with O_SYNC on. >>> >>> The following patch originally written by Kevin Jamieson and >>> Jan Blunck and slightly modified for the current RCs by myself >>> tries to improve the performance by modifying the behaviour >>> of kcopyd, so that it pushes back an I/O job to the head of >>> the job queue instead of the tail as process_jobs() currently >>> does when it has to wait for free pages. This way, write >>> requests aren't shuffled to cause extra seeks. >> >> Did you check for starvation problems, too?
I have twice and four times as many pages allocated to each kcopyd client without patching the queuing behaviour and got these figures (MiB/s) -- allocating more buffers doesn't seem to help much, so I don't think it's memory shortage that matters here.
test \ # of buffer pages 256(default) 512 1024 10M dd+fsync, create 16.00 18.60 18.95 10M dd+fsync, update 16.14 18.39 19.70 100M dd+fsync, create 15.18 18.80 19.29 100M dd+fsync, update 15.28 19.29 19.45
-- > Kazuo Ito, NTT Open Source Software Center > Phone: +81-3-5860-5125 / FAX: +81-3-5463-5690 / E-mail: > ito.kazuo@oss.ntt.co.jp
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