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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] multipath: change the DEFAULT_MINIO for the request based multipath
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:32:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D37E513.3070506@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <91d6dae7d88296d8a1fe.1295472607@malahal>

On 01/19/2011 10:30 PM, Malahal Naineni wrote:
> The value of 1000 is good for bio based multipath. Seen 50% increase in
> I/O ops by setting it to 1 in request based multipath configuration.
> This patch would give poor performance for people still using the bio
> based multipath!
> 
> Is it possible to detect request based multipath and change only for
> those configurations?
> 
> diff -r e504a50b0db5 -r 91d6dae7d882 libmultipath/defaults.h
> --- a/libmultipath/defaults.h	Wed Jan 19 13:16:40 2011 -0800
> +++ b/libmultipath/defaults.h	Wed Jan 19 13:29:52 2011 -0800
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
>  #define DEFAULT_ALIAS_PREFIX	"mpath"
>  #define DEFAULT_FEATURES	"0"
>  #define DEFAULT_HWHANDLER	"0"
> -#define DEFAULT_MINIO		1000
> +#define DEFAULT_MINIO		1
>  #define DEFAULT_PGPOLICY       FAILOVER
>  #define DEFAULT_FAILBACK       -FAILBACK_MANUAL
>  #define DEFAULT_RR_WEIGHT      RR_WEIGHT_NONE
> 
Heh, that was the main reason for using request-based multipathing :-)

So yes, changing the behaviour is a good idea. But we should equally
be able to detect if request-based multipathing is present; maybe
we can key off the version number of dm-multipath?

Cheers,

Hannes
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-20  7:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-19 21:30 [PATCH] [RFC] multipath: change the DEFAULT_MINIO for the request based multipath Malahal Naineni
2011-01-20  7:32 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2011-01-20 16:07   ` Mike Snitzer
2011-01-21  7:03     ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2011-01-21  8:47       ` Christophe Varoqui
2011-01-21 14:12         ` Mike Snitzer
2011-01-21 14:46           ` Christophe Varoqui
2011-01-21 17:39             ` Malahal Naineni
2011-01-25  8:56               ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2011-01-26  2:23                 ` Malahal Naineni
2011-01-26 17:27                   ` nishant mungse
2011-01-27 15:16                     ` nishant mungse
2011-01-31 23:53                   ` Christophe Varoqui
2011-02-01  2:21                     ` Malahal Naineni
2011-02-01  3:13                       ` Mike Snitzer
2011-02-01  8:14                         ` Malahal Naineni
2011-02-01  8:13                     ` Malahal Naineni
2011-02-01  9:00                       ` Christophe Varoqui
2011-02-01  9:51                         ` Malahal Naineni
2011-01-21 13:26       ` Mike Snitzer

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