linux-ext4 - Re: ext4 writepages is making tiny bios?

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Date:	Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:42:09 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: ext4 writepages is making tiny bios?

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 03:52:01PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > XFS did the mistake of trusting the VM, while everyone more or less
> > overrode it.  Removing all those checks and writing out much larger
> > data fixes it with a relatively small patch:
> > 
> > 	http://verein.lst.de/~hch/xfs/xfs-writeback-scaling
> 
> Careful:
> 
> -	tloff = min(tlast, startpage->index + 64);
> +	tloff = min(tlast, startpage->index + 8192);
> 
> That will cause 64k page machines to try to write back 512MB at a
> time. This will re-introduce similar to the behaviour in sles9 where
> writeback would only terminate at the end of an extent (because the
> mapping end wasn't capped like above).

Pretty good point, any applies to all the different things we discussed
recently.  Ted, should be maybe introduce a max_writeback_mb instead of
the max_writeback_pages in the VM, too?

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