linux-kernel - Re: Higher than expected disk write(2) latency

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Message-Id: <1215699512.24425.218.camel@think.oraclecorp.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:18:32 -0400
From:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Martin Lucina <mato@...elna.sk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Martin Sustrik <sustrik@...tmq.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-aio@...ck.org
Subject: Re: Higher than expected disk write(2) latency

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 07:01 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:41:46 +0200
> Martin Lucina <mato@...elna.sk> wrote:
> 
> > chris.mason@...cle.com said:
> > > Is NCQ enabled on the drive?  The basic way to fix this is to have
> > > multiple requests in flight, which isn't going to happen on sata
> > > with the cache off and with ncq off.
> > 
> > ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
> > ata1.00: ATA-7: Hitachi HDS721616PLA380, P22OAB3A, max UDMA/133
> > ata1.00: 321672960 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
> > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
> > 
> > I'm assuming the above indicates NCQ is enabled.
> > 
> > We'll try running the tests tomorrow with different i/o schedulers and
> > report back.
> 
> 
> another thing to try is using AHCI mode instead; AHCI tends to be
> higher performance
> 
> (and.. for fun try to run latencytop during a run, to see if maybe
> there are unsuspected delay causes)
> 
Any latencies during submit (at least for kernel aio) are probably from
get_request_wait, but the numbers so far look like they are only seeing
one request in flight at a time.

-chris


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