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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 19:20:59 -0600
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, tytso@....edu
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nauman Rafique <nauman@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Make CFQ default to IOPS mode on SSDs
On 06/05/2015 04:58 PM, Tahsin Erdogan wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com> wrote:
>>> CFQ idling causes reduced IOPS throughput on non-rotational disks.
>>> Since disk head seeking is not applicable to SSDs, it doesn't really
>>> help performance by anticipating future near-by IO requests.
>>>
>>> By turning off idling (and switching to IOPS mode), we allow other
>>> processes to dispatch IO requests down to the driver and so increase IO
>>> throughput.
>>>
>>> Following FIO benchmark results were taken on a cloud SSD offering with
>>> idling on and off:
>>>
>>> Idling iops avg-lat(ms) stddev bw
>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>> On 7054 90.107 38.697 28217KB/s
>>> Off 29255 21.836 11.730 117022KB/s
>>>
>>> fio --name=temp --size=100G --time_based --ioengine=libaio \
>>> --randrepeat=0 --direct=1 --invalidate=1 --verify=0 \
>>> --verify_fatal=0 --rw=randread --blocksize=4k --group_reporting=1 \
>>> --filename=/dev/sdb --runtime=10 --iodepth=64 --numjobs=10
>>>
>>> And the following is from a local SSD run:
>>>
>>> Idling iops avg-lat(ms) stddev bw
>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>> On 19320 33.043 14.068 77281KB/s
>>> Off 21626 29.465 12.662 86507KB/s
>>>
>>> fio --name=temp --size=5G --time_based --ioengine=libaio \
>>> --randrepeat=0 --direct=1 --invalidate=1 --verify=0 \
>>> --verify_fatal=0 --rw=randread --blocksize=4k --group_reporting=1 \
>>> --filename=/fio_data --runtime=10 --iodepth=64 --numjobs=10
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Nauman Rafique <nauman@...gle.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>
>>> ---
>>> block/cfq-iosched.c | 2 +-
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
>>> index 5da8e6e..402be01 100644
>>> --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
>>> +++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
>>> @@ -4460,7 +4460,7 @@ static int cfq_init_queue(struct request_queue *q, struct elevator_type *e)
>>> cfqd->cfq_slice[1] = cfq_slice_sync;
>>> cfqd->cfq_target_latency = cfq_target_latency;
>>> cfqd->cfq_slice_async_rq = cfq_slice_async_rq;
>>> - cfqd->cfq_slice_idle = cfq_slice_idle;
>>> + cfqd->cfq_slice_idle = blk_queue_nonrot(q) ? 0 : cfq_slice_idle;
>>> cfqd->cfq_group_idle = cfq_group_idle;
>>> cfqd->cfq_latency = 1;
>>> cfqd->hw_tag = -1;
>>> --
>>> 2.2.0.rc0.207.ga3a616c
>>>
>>
>> Ping...
>
> Trying once more..
This one worked :-). I agree, it's probably the sane thing to do, I'll
apply this for 4.2.
--
Jens Axboe
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