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Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 12:55:41 -0400
From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Justin M. Forbes" <jforbes@...oraproject.org>,
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
"v4.0" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: loop: avoiding too many pending per work I/O
Hello, Ming.
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 10:46:10PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
> > It's a bit weird to hard code this to 16 as this effectively becomes a
> > hidden bottleneck for concurrency. For cases where 16 isn't a good
> > value, hunting down what's going on can be painful as it's not visible
> > anywhere. I still think the right knob to control concurrency is
> > nr_requests for the loop device. You said that for linear IOs, it's
> > better to have higher nr_requests than concurrency but can you
> > elaborate why?
>
> I mean, in case of sequential IO, the IO may hit page cache a bit easier,
> so handling the IO may be quite quick, then it is often more efficient to
> handle them in one same context(such as, handle one by one from IO
> queue) than from different contexts(scheduled from different worker
> threads). And that can be made by setting a bigger nr_requests(queue_depth).
Ah, so, it's about the queueing latency. Blocking the issuer from
get_request side for the same level of concurrency would incur a lot
longer latency before the next IO can be dispatched. The arbitrary 16
is still bothering but for now it's fine I guess, but we need to
revisit the whole thing including WQ_HIGHPRI thing. Maybe it made
sense when we had only one thread servicing all IOs but w/ high
concurrency I don't think it's a good idea.
Please feel free to add
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Thanks.
--
tejun
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