From: Lukas Herbolt <lukas@herbolt.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: zlang@kernel.org, fstests@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] xfs/216 xfs/217 Use default -l conccurency=0 on mkfs.xfs that supports it
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 10:11:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fdd0ad038e8fd68a0d4fc2af3d3e04e6@herbolt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260430163635.GS7739@frogsfrogsfrogs>
On 2026-04-30 18:36, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 03:13:22PM +0200, Lukas Herbolt wrote:
>> The XFS conccurency optimalization breaks the log sizing check on
>
> "concurrency optimization"
>
>> systems with non-rotational disks and high amount of CPUs. Default to
>> the old behavior with -l conccurency=0 and with -d concurrency=0.
>
> "-l concurrency=0"
>
>> Signed-off-by: Lukas Herbolt <lukas@herbolt.com>
>> ---
>> tests/xfs/216 | 9 +++++++--
>> tests/xfs/217 | 17 +++++++++++++++--
>> 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tests/xfs/216 b/tests/xfs/216
>> index 091c11d08642..8b4610d5a0a6 100755
>> --- a/tests/xfs/216
>> +++ b/tests/xfs/216
>> @@ -21,14 +21,19 @@ _cleanup()
>> }
>>
>> _require_scratch
>> -_scratch_mkfs_xfs >/dev/null 2>&1
>> +if _scratch_mkfs_supports_concurrency -l >> $seqres.full 2>&1; then
>> + _scratch_mkfs_xfs -l concurrency=0 >/dev/null 2>&1
>> + loop_mkfs_opts="-l concurrency=0"
>> +else
>> + _scratch_mkfs_xfs >/dev/null 2>&1
>> + loop_mkfs_opts=
>> +fi
>> _scratch_mount
>>
>> _require_loop
>> LOOP_IMG=$SCRATCH_MNT/test_fs
>> LOOP_MNT=$SCRATCH_MNT/test_fs_dir
>>
>> -loop_mkfs_opts=
>> $MKFS_XFS_PROG 2>&1 | grep -q rmapbt && \
>> loop_mkfs_opts="$loop_mkfs_opts -m rmapbt=0"
>> $MKFS_XFS_PROG 2>&1 | grep -q reflink && \
>> diff --git a/tests/xfs/217 b/tests/xfs/217
>> index dae6ce55f475..7c7b33b1ccf7 100755
>> --- a/tests/xfs/217
>> +++ b/tests/xfs/217
>> @@ -20,7 +20,20 @@ _cleanup()
>> }
>>
>> _require_scratch
>> -_scratch_mkfs_xfs >/dev/null 2>&1
>> +if _scratch_mkfs_supports_concurrency -l >> $seqres.full 2>&1; then
>> + _scratch_mkfs_xfs -l concurrency=0 >/dev/null 2>&1
>
> Why does the scratch fs need a -lconcurrency option?
Yeah right it does not need it. Wanted to be sure we do not run into
-ENOSPC but on recommended 10G SCRATCH_DEV we should not.
>
>> + loop_mkfs_opts="-l concurrency=0"
>> + if _scratch_mkfs_supports_concurrency -d >> $seqres.full 2>&1; then
>> + # We could go just with -l concurency but then on 512CPUs
>> + # it gives log size off by one block so better to set
>> + # -d concurrency to 0.
>> + loop_mkfs_opts="$loop_mkfs_opts -d concurrency=0"
>
> concurrency= was added for -d and -l in the same release (6.7) so you
> don't have to test them separately.
Just wanted to be sure as those still came in different commits.
>
> --D
>
>> +
>> + fi
>> +else
>> + _scratch_mkfs_xfs >/dev/null 2>&1
>> + loop_mkfs_opts=
>> +fi
>> _scratch_mount
>> # 16T mkfs requires a bit over 2G free
>> _require_fs_space $SCRATCH_MNT 2202000
>> @@ -34,7 +47,7 @@ _do_mkfs()
>> for i in $*; do
>> echo -n "fssize=${i}g "
>> $MKFS_XFS_PROG -f -b size=4096 -l version=2 \
>> - -d size=${i}g $loop_dev |grep log
>> + -d size=${i}g $loop_dev $loop_mkfs_opts |grep log
>> _mount $loop_dev $LOOP_MNT
>> echo "test write" > $LOOP_MNT/test
>> _unmount $LOOP_MNT > /dev/null 2>&1
>> --
>> 2.53.0
>>
>>
--
-lhe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-14 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-30 13:13 [PATCH 0/4] Fixes for mkfs.xfs with high amount of CPUs and SSDs Lukas Herbolt
2026-04-30 13:13 ` [PATCH 1/4] common/rc: Add helper to calculate percetage of free space available Lukas Herbolt
2026-04-30 16:42 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-30 13:13 ` [PATCH 2/4] common/xfs: helper function to check if -l/-d/-r concurrecy flags Lukas Herbolt
2026-04-30 16:39 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-30 13:13 ` [PATCH 3/4] generic/{102,172,347}: Adapt test for XFS on systems with 128+CPUs + SSDs Lukas Herbolt
2026-04-30 16:31 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-04-30 13:13 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfs/216 xfs/217 Use default -l conccurency=0 on mkfs.xfs that supports it Lukas Herbolt
2026-04-30 16:36 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-05-14 8:11 ` Lukas Herbolt [this message]
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