Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] btrfs: read_policy types latency, device and round-robin

[Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>]

On 29/10/20 9:08 am, Anand Jain wrote:
> 
> 
> On 28/10/20 10:32 pm, Josef Bacik wrote:
>> On 10/28/20 9:25 AM, Anand Jain wrote:
>>> Based on misc-next
>>>
>>> Depends on the following 3 patches in the mailing list.
>>>    btrfs: add btrfs_strmatch helper
>>>    btrfs: create read policy framework
>>>    btrfs: create read policy sysfs attribute, pid
>>>
>>> v1:
>>> Drop tracing patch
>>> Drop factoring inflight command
>>>    Here below is the performance differences, when inflight is used, 
>>> it pushed
>>>    few commands to the other device, so losing the potential merges.
>>>
>>>    with inflight:
>>>     READ: bw=195MiB/s (204MB/s), 195MiB/s-195MiB/s (204MB/s-204MB/s), 
>>> io=15.6GiB (16.8GB), run=82203-82203msec
>>> sda 256054
>>> sdc 20
>>>
>>>    without inflight:
>>>     READ: bw=192MiB/s (202MB/s), 192MiB/s-192MiB/s (202MB/s-202MB/s), 
>>> io=15.6GiB (16.8GB), run=83231-83231msec
>>> sda 141006
>>> sdc 0
>>>
>>
>> What's the baseline?  I think 3mib/s is not that big of a tradeoff for 
>> complexity, but if baseline is like 190mib/s then maybe its worth it. 
>> If baseline is 90mib/s then I say it's not worth the inflight.  Thanks,
> 
>   Oh no I have to rerun the test cases here. As far as I remember
>   without inflight was better than with inflight. Because with
>   inflight there were fewer merges leading to more read IOs.
> 
>   Will rerun and send the data.
> 

<raid1>

With inflight: (the inflight patches were in the RFC patchset):
pid [latency] device roundrobin ( 00)
    READ: bw=40.3MiB/s (42.3MB/s), 40.3MiB/s-40.3MiB/s 
(42.3MB/s-42.3MB/s), io=15.6GiB (16.8GB), run=396546-396546msec
vdb 363575
sda 200771


Without inflight:
pid [latency] device roundrobin ( 00)
    READ: bw=41.7MiB/s (43.8MB/s), 41.7MiB/s-41.7MiB/s 
(43.8MB/s-43.8MB/s), io=15.6GiB (16.8GB), run=383274-383274msec
vdb 256238
sda 0

Without inflight is better due to lesser IO.

Thanks, Anand

> Thanks, Anand
> 
>>
>> Josef