Re: [PATCH -next RFC v3 0/8] improve tag allocation under heavy load

From: Damien Le Moal
Date: Mon Apr 25 2022 - 07:20:44 EST


On 4/25/22 16:28, yukuai (C) wrote:
> 在 2022/04/25 15:06, Damien Le Moal 写道:
>
>>>> By the way, did you check that doing something like:
>>>>
>>>> echo 2048 > /sys/block/sdX/queue/nr_requests
>>>>
>>>> improves performance for your high number of jobs test case ?
>>>
>>> Yes, performance will not degrade when numjobs is not greater than 256
>>> in this case.
>>
>> That is my thinking as well. I am asking if did check that (did you run it ?).
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm sure I ran it with 256 jobs before.
>
> However, I didn't run it with 512 jobs. And following is the result I
> just tested:

What was nr_requests ? The default 64 ?
If you increase that number, do you see better throughput/more requests
being sequential ?


>
> ratio of sequential io: 49.1%
>
> Read|Write seek
>
> cnt 99338, zero cnt 48753
>
> >=(KB) .. <(KB) : count ratio |distribution
> |
> 0 .. 1 : 48753 49.1%
> |########################################|
> 1 .. 2 : 0 0.0% |
> |
> 2 .. 4 : 0 0.0% |
> |
> 4 .. 8 : 0 0.0% |
> |
> 8 .. 16 : 0 0.0% |
> |
> 16 .. 32 : 0 0.0% |
> |
> 32 .. 64 : 0 0.0% |
> |
> 64 .. 128 : 4975 5.0% |#####
> |
> 128 .. 256 : 4439 4.5% |####
> |
> 256 .. 512 : 2615 2.6% |###
> |
> 512 .. 1024 : 967 1.0% |#
> |
> 1024 .. 2048 : 213 0.2% |#
> |
> 2048 .. 4096 : 375 0.4% |#
> |
> 4096 .. 8192 : 723 0.7% |#
> |
> 8192 .. 16384 : 1436 1.4% |##
> |
> 16384 .. 32768 : 2626 2.6% |###
> |
> 32768 .. 65536 : 4197 4.2% |####
> |
> 65536 .. 131072 : 6431 6.5% |######
> |
> 131072 .. 262144 : 7590 7.6% |#######
> |
> 262144 .. 524288 : 6433 6.5% |######
> |
> 524288 .. 1048576 : 4583 4.6% |####
> |
> 1048576 .. 2097152 : 2237 2.3% |##
> |
> 2097152 .. 4194304 : 489 0.5% |#
> |
> 4194304 .. 8388608 : 83 0.1% |#
> |
> 8388608 .. 16777216 : 36 0.0% |#
> |
> 16777216 .. 33554432 : 0 0.0% |
> |
> 33554432 .. 67108864 : 0 0.0% |
> |
> 67108864 .. 134217728 : 137 0.1% |#
> |


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research