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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] writeback: add dirty_background_time per bdi variable
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 08:12:40AM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> >>
> >> To be frank, no realistic NFS servers will use USB disk as backing
> >> storage. So that rational for reducing "initial" delays is weak.
> >> Continuous write performance to HDD is much more important. Do you
> >> have numbers for that?
> >
> > Actually, we use USB HDD and USB Flash devices at NFS server.
> > There can be other similar users as well. So it might be useful to
> > provide this tuning feature other.
> > As default value is zero, it is disabled by default and it should not
> > impact normal writeback.
> >
> > I will share large file writes test result on NFS client on USB HDD
> > with/without tuning with patch.
> Hi. Wu.
> I share 1GB continous write test result.
>
> -> create a 1000 MB file
> For continuous write - create 1 GB file
>
> RecSize WriteSpeed
> 10485760 10.47MB/sec
> 1048576 10.35MB/sec
> 524288 10.48MB/sec
> 262144 10.48MB/sec
> 131072 10.52MB/sec
> 65536 10.56MB/sec
> 32768 10.64MB/sec
> 16384 10.31MB/sec
> 8192 10.52MB/sec
> 4096 10.45MB/sec
>
> I will update changelog in patch.

Thanks! What's the server side setting and can you give a comparison
of different background writeback thresholds? This is this patch's
target use cases, after all.

Thanks,
Fengguang


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