From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
To: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
paolo.valente@linaro.org
Subject: Re: Device or HBA level QD throttling creates randomness in sequetial workload
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 08:41:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161024154123.GA7379@vader> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f7cec69e6e12b6baa8e7f180a8e41b3@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 06:35:01PM +0530, Kashyap Desai wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 05:43:35PM +0530, Kashyap Desai wrote:
> > > Hi -
> > >
> > > I found below conversation and it is on the same line as I wanted some
> > > input from mailing list.
> > >
> > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147569860526197&w=2
> > >
> > > I can do testing on any WIP item as Omar mentioned in above
> discussion.
> > > https://github.com/osandov/linux/tree/blk-mq-iosched
>
> I tried build kernel using this repo, but looks like it is not allowed to
> reboot due to some changes in <block> layer.
Did you build the most up-to-date version of that branch? I've been
force pushing to it, so the commit id that you built would be useful.
What boot failure are you seeing?
> >
> > Are you using blk-mq for this disk? If not, then the work there won't
> affect you.
>
> YES. I am using blk-mq for my test. I also confirm if use_blk_mq is
> disable, Sequential work load issue is not seen and <cfq> scheduling works
> well.
Ah, okay, perfect. Can you send the fio job file you're using? Hard to
tell exactly what's going on without the details. A sequential workload
with just one submitter is about as easy as it gets, so this _should_ be
behaving nicely.
> >
> > > Is there any workaround/alternative in latest upstream kernel, if user
> > > wants to see limited penalty for Sequential Work load on HDD ?
> > >
> > > ` Kashyap
> > >
P.S., your emails are being marked as spam by Gmail. Actually, Gmail
seems to mark just about everything I get from Broadcom as spam due to
failed DMARC.
--
Omar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-24 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-21 12:13 Device or HBA level QD throttling creates randomness in sequetial workload Kashyap Desai
2016-10-21 21:31 ` Omar Sandoval
2016-10-22 15:04 ` Kashyap Desai
[not found] ` <1f7cec69e6e12b6baa8e7f180a8e41b3@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-24 15:41 ` Omar Sandoval [this message]
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2016-10-24 18:54 Kashyap Desai
2016-10-26 20:56 ` Omar Sandoval
2016-10-31 17:24 ` Jens Axboe
2017-01-30 13:52 ` Kashyap Desai
2017-01-30 16:30 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-01-30 16:32 ` Jens Axboe
2017-01-30 18:28 ` Kashyap Desai
2017-01-30 18:29 ` Jens Axboe
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