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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: lilofile <lilofile@aliyun.com>
Cc: Ondrej Kozina <okozina@redhat.com>,
	device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	"Alasdair G. Kergon" <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Thinly-Provisioned Logical Volumes
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 08:38:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140922123837.GA5191@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b3abf2cc-2219-4b5a-b546-5f71301c40e4@aliyun.com>

On Sat, Sep 20 2014 at 10:19am -0400,
lilofile <lilofile@aliyun.com> wrote:

> when I test Thinly-Provisioned Logical Volumes(use device thinprovison
> target),I found the random write performance is very low. What factors
> will influence the random write performance of  thin volume.

It is worth reading this blog post from Joe:
http://device-mapper.org/blog/2014/01/21/random-io-and-copy-on-write-schemes/

> how can i quickly understand dm-bufio.c?

What is it you'd like to know?  dm-bufio.c isn't the smoking gun for
random write performance being slow though.  It is more to do with the
natural impact random writes have on thinp (as discussed in the above
article).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-22 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-20 14:19 Thinly-Provisioned Logical Volumes lilofile
2014-09-22  7:02 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2014-09-22 12:38 ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2014-09-23 13:51 ` reply: " lilofile
2014-09-23 14:07   ` Zdenek Kabelac
2014-09-24  2:11   ` lilofile
2014-09-24  7:02     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2014-09-24  8:37     ` Joe Thornber

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