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* test needed for a dm-bufio patch
@ 2013-07-02 21:51 Mikulas Patocka
  2013-07-09 17:00 ` Joe Thornber
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mikulas Patocka @ 2013-07-02 21:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Edward Thornber; +Cc: dm-devel, Alasdair G. Kergon

Hi Joe

Could you please try this patch 
http://people.redhat.com/agk/patches/linux/editing/dm-bufio-submit-writes-outside-lock.patch
and test if it generates some regressions for dm-thin?

Run some benchmark that you normally use for dm-thin and test if it is 
better, same or worse with the patch.

The patch changes dm-bufio so that it drops the lock when submitting bios 
inside dm_bufio_write_dirty_buffers so that there is more parallelism.

Mikulas

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* Re: test needed for a dm-bufio patch
  2013-07-02 21:51 test needed for a dm-bufio patch Mikulas Patocka
@ 2013-07-09 17:00 ` Joe Thornber
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Joe Thornber @ 2013-07-09 17:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mikulas Patocka; +Cc: dm-devel, Alasdair G. Kergon

On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 05:51:50PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Hi Joe
>
> Could you please try this patch
> http://people.redhat.com/agk/patches/linux/editing/dm-bufio-submit-writes-outside-lock.patch
> and test if it generates some regressions for dm-thin?

Hi Mikulas,

I've run a couple of cache tests and don't see any regressions.
performance is similar.  I'll include it in my tree since it seems to
be a good thing.

- Joe

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