linux-ext4 - Re: ext4 write performance regression in 3.6-rc1 on RAID0/5

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Date:	Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:00:25 +1000
From:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Li Shaohua <shli@...ionio.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Marti Raudsepp <marti@...fo.org>,
	Kernel hackers <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ext4 hackers <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, maze@...gle.com,
	"Shi, Alex" <alex.shi@...el.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux RAID <linux-raid@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext4 write performance regression in 3.6-rc1 on RAID0/5

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:57:02 +0800 Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@...ux.intel.com>
wrote:

>  
> -#define NR_STRIPES		256
> +#define NR_STRIPES		1024

Changing one magic number into another magic number might help your case, but
it not really a general solution.

Possibly making sure that max_nr_stripes is at least some multiple of the
chunk size might make sense, but I wouldn't want to see a very large multiple.

I thing the problems with RAID5 are deeper than that.  Hopefully I'll figure
out exactly what the best fix is soon - I'm trying to look into it.

I don't think the size of the cache is a big part of the solution.  I think
correct scheduling of IO is the real answer.

Thanks,
NeilBrown

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