Re: [PATCH] block/mq-deadline: Speed up the dispatch of low-priority requests

[Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>]

On 8/26/21 11:45 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Just ran a quick test here, and I go from 3.55M IOPS to 1.23M switching
> to deadline, of which 37% of the overhead is from dd_dispatch().
> 
> With the posted patch applied, it runs at 2.3M IOPS with mq-deadline,
> which is a lot better. This is on my 3970X test box, so 32 cores, 64
> threads.

Hi Jens,

With the script below, queue depth >= 2 and an improved version of
Zhen's patch I see 970 K IOPS with the mq-deadline scheduler in an
8 core VM (i7-4790 CPU). In other words, more IOPS than what Zhen
reported with fewer CPU cores. Is that good enough?

Thanks,

Bart.

#!/bin/bash

if [ -e /sys/kernel/config/nullb ]; then
    for d in /sys/kernel/config/nullb/*; do
        [ -d "$d" ] && rmdir "$d"
    done
fi
numcpus=$(grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo)
modprobe -r null_blk
[ -e /sys/module/null_blk ] && exit $?
modprobe null_blk nr_devices=0 &&
    udevadm settle &&
    cd /sys/kernel/config/nullb &&
    mkdir nullb0 &&
    cd nullb0 &&
    echo 0 > completion_nsec &&
    echo 512 > blocksize &&
    echo 0 > home_node &&
    echo 0 > irqmode &&
    echo 1024 > size &&
    echo 0 > memory_backed &&
    echo 2 > queue_mode &&
    echo 1 > power ||
    exit $?

(
    cd /sys/block/nullb0/queue &&
	echo 2 > rq_affinity
) || exit $?

iodepth=${1:-1}
runtime=30
args=()
if [ "$iodepth" = 1 ]; then
	args+=(--ioengine=psync)
else
	args+=(--ioengine=io_uring --iodepth_batch=$((iodepth/2)))
fi
args+=(--iodepth=$iodepth --name=nullb0 --filename=/dev/nullb0\
    --rw=read --bs=512 --loops=$((1<<20)) --direct=1 --numjobs=$numcpus \
    --thread --runtime=$runtime --invalidate=1 --gtod_reduce=1 \
    --group_reporting=1 --ioscheduler=mq-deadline)
if numactl -m 0 -N 0 echo >&/dev/null; then
	numactl -m 0 -N 0 -- fio "${args[@]}"
else
	fio "${args[@]}"
fi