From: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe-2Lf/h1ldwEHR5kwTpVNS9A@public.gmane.org>
To: Kent Overstreet <kmo-PEzghdH756F8UrSeD/g0lQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Jack Wang
<jack.wang.usish-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
"linux-bcache-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org"
<linux-bcache-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: can't get bache's sequential_cutoff to work
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:17:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F0D0FC.4040002@profihost.ag> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130725001431.GA12364@kmo-pixel>
Am 25.07.2013 02:14, schrieb Kent Overstreet:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:38:49PM +0200, Stefan Priebe wrote:
>> Mhm works directly on block device but not with XFS on top.
>
> That's odd...
>
> Do you suppose you could look at what blktrace says is going down? If
> you could compare what blktrace says is going to the bcache device with
> and without XFS, hopefully that'll show what's going wrong...
>
> Only thing I can think of that would cause it is for some reason XFS is
> sending bios down in the wrong order... which normally wouldn't be _too_
> painful since both the elevator and the disk's cache will reorder the
> IOs, so I can see how that would slip by.
Hi,
will try to have a look. But can it also be that the history of 128
entries is too small under my workload and bcache does not detect the
sequence? Is there a way to try with a higher value like 1024?
Stefan
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2013-07-23 14:16 can't get bache's sequential_cutoff to work Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
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2013-07-23 19:41 ` Stefan Priebe
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2013-07-23 20:31 ` Stefan Priebe
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2013-07-23 20:38 ` Stefan Priebe
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2013-07-25 0:14 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-07-25 7:17 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG [this message]
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