Re: [RFC] performance regression with "ext4: Allow parallel DIO reads"

[Joseph Qi <jiangqi903@gmail.com>]

On 19/7/29 06:51, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 09:12:07AM +0800, Joseph Qi wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 19/7/26 05:20, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jul 23, 2019, at 5:17 AM, Joseph Qi <jiangqi903@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Ted & Jan,
>>>> Could you please give your valuable comments?
>>>
>>> It seems like the original patches should be reverted?  There is no data
>>
>> From my test result, yes.
>> I've also tested libaio with iodepth 16, it behaves the same. Here is the test
>> data for libaio 4k randrw:
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> w/ parallel dio reads | READ 78313KB/s, 19578, 1698.70us  | WRITE 78313KB/s, 19578, 4837.60us
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> w/o parallel dio reads| READ 387774KB/s, 96943, 1009.73us | WRITE 387656KB/s，96914, 308.87us
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Since this commit went into upstream long time ago，to be precise, Linux
>> 4.9, I wonder if someone else has also observed this regression, or
>> anything I missed?
> 
> I suspect that the second part of this set of mods that Jan had
> planned to do (on the write side to use shared locking as well)
> did not happen and so the DIO writes are serialising the workload.
> 

Thanks for the inputs, Dave.
Hi Jan, Could you please confirm this?
If so, should we revert this commit at present?

Thanks,
Joseph