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Message-ID: <1429823050.26534.9.camel@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:04:10 -0500 From: "Justin M. Forbes" <jforbes@...hat.com> To: ming.lei@...onical.com Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: loop block-mq conversion scalability issues The block-mq conversion for loop in 4.0 kernels is showing us an interesting scalability problem with live CDs (ro, squashfs). It was noticed when testing the Fedora beta that the more CPUs a liveCD image was given, the slower it would boot. A 4 core qemu instance or bare metal instance took more than twice as long to boot compared to a single CPU instance. After investigating, this came directly to the block-mq conversion, reverting these 4 patches will return performance. More details are available at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210857 I don't think that reverting the patches is the ideal solution so I am looking for other options. Since you know this code a bit better than I do I thought I would run it by you while I am looking as well. Thanks, Justin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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