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From: Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>
To: <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SSD Optimizations
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:03:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <245edecbf26891c3e4368476af2bb26a@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6278d2221003110235u6d75849bj4b356875ece8a01f@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:35:45 +0000, Daniel J Blueman
<daniel.blueman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> Are there similar optimizations available in BTRFS?
>>>
>>> There is an SSD mount option available[1].
>>>
>>> [1]
http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Getting_started#Mount_Options
>>
>> But what _exactly_ does it do?
> 
> Chris explains the change to favour spatial locality in allocator
> behaviour in with '-o ssd'. '-o ssd_spread' does the opposite, where
> RMW cycles are higher penalty. Elsewhere IIRC, Chris also said BTRFS
> attempts to submit 128KB BIOs where possible (or wishful thinking?):
> 
> http://markmail.org/message/4sq4uco2lghgxzzz

Thanks, that's useful info.

What about FS block and metadata alignment, though? Is there a way to
leverage the knowledge of erase block size in order to reduce wear and
increase performance?

Gordan

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-11 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-10 19:49 SSD Optimizations Gordan Bobic
2010-03-10 21:14 ` Marcus Fritzsch
2010-03-10 21:22   ` Marcus Fritzsch
2010-03-10 23:13   ` Gordan Bobic
2010-03-11 10:35     ` Daniel J Blueman
2010-03-11 12:03       ` Gordan Bobic [this message]
2010-03-10 23:12 ` Mike Fedyk
2010-03-10 23:22   ` Gordan Bobic
2010-03-11  7:38     ` Sander
2010-03-11 10:59       ` Hubert Kario
2010-03-11 11:31         ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2010-03-11 12:17           ` Gordan Bobic
2010-03-11 12:59             ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2010-03-11 13:20               ` Gordan Bobic
2010-03-11 14:01                 ` Hubert Kario
2010-03-11 15:35                   ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2010-03-11 16:03                     ` Gordan Bobic
2010-03-11 16:19                       ` Chris Mason
2010-03-12  1:07                         ` Hubert Kario
2010-03-12  1:42                           ` Chris Mason
2010-03-12  9:15                           ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2010-03-12 16:00                             ` Hubert Kario
2010-03-13 17:02                               ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2010-03-13 19:01                                 ` Hubert Kario
2010-03-11 16:48             ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-11 14:39           ` Sander
2010-03-11 17:35             ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2010-03-11 18:00               ` Chris Mason
2010-03-13 16:43                 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2010-03-13 19:41                   ` Hubert Kario
2010-03-13 21:48                   ` Chris Mason
2010-03-14  3:19                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-03-11 12:09         ` Gordan Bobic
2010-03-11 16:22           ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-11 11:59       ` Gordan Bobic
2010-03-11 15:59         ` Asdo
     [not found]         ` <4B98F350.6080804@shiftmail.org>
2010-03-11 16:15           ` Gordan Bobic
2010-03-11 14:21 ` Chris Mason
2010-03-11 16:18   ` Gordan Bobic
2010-03-11 16:29     ` Chris Mason
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-12-12 17:24 SSD optimizations Paddy Steed
2010-12-13  0:04 ` Gordan Bobic
2010-12-13  5:11   ` Sander
2010-12-13  9:25     ` Gordan Bobic
2010-12-13 14:33       ` Peter Harris
2010-12-13 15:04         ` Gordan Bobic
2010-12-13 15:17       ` cwillu
2010-12-13 16:48         ` Gordan Bobic
2010-12-13 17:17   ` Paddy Steed
2010-12-13 17:47     ` Gordan Bobic
2010-12-13 18:20     ` Tomasz Torcz
2010-12-13 19:34       ` Ric Wheeler

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