Re: AW: Slow I/O on USB media after commit f664a3cc17b7d0a2bc3b3ab96181e1029b0ec0e6

[Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 08:46:57AM +0100, Andrea Vai wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 27/11/2019 alle 08.14 +0000, Schmid, Carsten ha
> scritto:
> > > 
> > > > Then I started another set of 100 trials and let them run
> > tonight, and
> > > > the first 10 trials were around 1000s, then gradually decreased
> > to
> > > > ~300s, and finally settled around 200s with some trials below
> > 70-80s.
> > > > This to say, times are extremely variable and for the first time
> > I
> > > > noticed a sort of "performance increase" with time.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > The sheer volume of testing (probably some terabytes by now) would
> > > exercise the wear leveling algorithm in the FTL.
> > > 
> > But with "old kernel" the copy operation still is "fast", as far as
> > i understood.
> > If FTL (e.g. wear leveling) would slow down, we would see that also
> > in
> > the old kernel, right?
> > 
> > Andrea, can you confirm that the same device used with the old fast
> > kernel is still fast today?
> 
> Yes, it is still fast. Just ran a 100 trials test and got an average
> of 70 seconds with standard deviation = 6 seconds, aligned with the
> past values of the same kernel.

Then can you collect trace on the old kernel via the previous script?

#!/bin/sh

MAJ=$1
MIN=$2
MAJ=$(( $MAJ << 20 ))
DEV=$(( $MAJ | $MIN ))

/usr/share/bcc/tools/trace -t -C \
    't:block:block_rq_issue (args->dev == '$DEV') "%s %d %d", args->rwbs, args->sector, args->nr_sector' \
    't:block:block_rq_insert (args->dev == '$DEV') "%s %d %d", args->rwbs, args->sector, args->nr_sector'

Both the two trace points and bcc should be available on the old kernel.

Thanks,
Ming