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From: Christian Rohmann <crohmann@netcologne.de>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: btrfs-progs 4.4 re-balance of RAID6 is very slow / limited to one cpu core?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:38:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A230C3.3080100@netcologne.de> (raw)

Hello btrfs-folks,

I am currently doing a big "btrfs balance" to extend a 8 drive RAID6 to
12 drives using
 "btrfs balance start -dstripes 1..11 -mstripes 1..11"

With kernel 4.4 and btrfs progs 4.4 it's running fine for a few days now
and the new disks are slowing getting more and more extents.
But somehow the process is VERY slow (3% in 3 days) and there is almost
no additional disk utilization.

The process doing the balance is doing 100% cpu (one core) so apparently
the whole thing is very much single threaded and therefore CPU-bound in
this case.

Is this a known issue or is there anything I can do to speed this up? I
mean the disks have plenty of iops left to work with and the box has
many more CPU cores idling away.



Regards


Christian


             reply	other threads:[~2016-01-22 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-22 13:38 Christian Rohmann [this message]
2016-01-22 14:51 ` btrfs-progs 4.4 re-balance of RAID6 is very slow / limited to one cpu core? Duncan
2016-01-24  2:30 ` Henk Slager
2016-01-25 11:34   ` Christian Rohmann
2016-01-25 22:13     ` Chris Murphy
     [not found]       ` <CAKZK7uxdX9UBPOKButtPjqBOdVUfHdRTimP+W34fkz1h9P+wHg@mail.gmail.com>
2016-01-26  0:44         ` Fwd: " Justin Brown
2016-01-26  5:17           ` Chris Murphy
2016-01-26  6:14             ` Chris Murphy
2016-01-26  8:54               ` Christian Rohmann
2016-01-26 19:26                 ` Chris Murphy
2016-01-26 19:27                   ` Chris Murphy
2016-01-26 19:57                   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-26 20:20                     ` Chris Murphy
2016-01-27  8:48                       ` Christian Rohmann
2016-01-27 16:34                         ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-27 20:58                           ` bbrendon
2016-01-27 21:53                           ` Chris Murphy
2016-01-28 12:27                             ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-02-01 14:10                             ` Christian Rohmann
2016-02-01 20:52                               ` Chris Murphy
2016-02-09 13:48                                 ` Christian Rohmann
2016-02-09 16:46                                   ` Marc MERLIN
2016-02-09 21:46                                   ` Chris Murphy
2016-02-10  2:23                                     ` Chris Murphy
2016-02-10  2:36                                       ` Chris Murphy
2016-02-10 13:19                                     ` Christian Rohmann
2016-02-10 19:16                                       ` Chris Murphy
2016-02-10 19:38                                         ` Chris Murphy

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