From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Performance question when blocks in thin-pool are assume zeroed
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 14:59:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140513135959.GB21162@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGj=0YKhOOP7O2okP5MAhev5+FAnRt3i7HgMOLipaLhYUeJO2w@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Wayne,
I see you're using a 3.6 kernel. Could I trouble you to try with 3.14
please? Mike Snitzer wrote a very nice patch recently that implements
a separate deferred list for each thin device, and then sorts
individual bios using a btree.
https://github.com/jthornber/linux-2.6/commit/67324ea18812bc952ef96892fbd5817b9050413f
- Joe
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 05:03:39PM +0800, Wayne Chou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using 4 drives to construct a RAID5 and build a thin
> volume on it. To get better performance, I use '-Zn' option
> in 'lvcreate' to make the thin pool assume all blocks are
> already zeroed. The chunk size in RAID5 and thin-pool are
> both 512KB and the stripe_cache_size=4096 on RAID5.
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2014-05-12 9:03 Performance question when blocks in thin-pool are assume zeroed Wayne Chou
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2014-05-12 8:54 Wayne Chou
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