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From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Alan Piszcz <ap@solarrain.com>
Subject: Re: mdadm software raid + ext4, capped at ~350MiB/s limitation/bug?
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:00:06 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002280958540.22822@p34.internal.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B8A7D24.5040404@tmr.com>



On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>

[ .. ]

>> fdatasync:
>> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1002.3/01507.html
>> 
> I wasn't expecting a huge change in value, your data size is large. But 
> thanks, the total time without sync can be off by at least seconds, making it 
> hard to duplicate results. You missed nothing this time.
>
> Did you use any of the options with ext4? I found about 15-20% with options, 
> but I didn't take good enough notes to quote now. :-(
> That doesn't mean there wasn't more, I tested on FC9, ext4 was experimental 
> then.

Yes:

I tried nearly every option in the ext4 readme:

more:

p63:~# tune2fs -o journal_data_writeback /dev/md0
tune2fs 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009)
p63:~# mount /dev/md0 /r1 -o noatime,barrier=0,data=writeback,nobh,commit=100,nouser_xattr
p63:~#

p63:~# cd /r1
p63:/r1# dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1M count=10240
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 35.7193 s, 301 MB/s
p63:/r1#

p63:~# mount /dev/md0 /r1 -o noatime,barrier=0,data=writeback,nobh,commit=100,nouser_xattr,nodelalloc
p63:~#
p63:/r1# dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1M count=10240
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 30.5846 s, 351 MB/s
p63:/r1#

p63:~# mount /dev/md0 /r1 -o noatime,barrier=0,data=writeback,nobh,commit=100,nouser_xattr,nodelalloc,max_batch_time=0
p63:~#
p63:/r1# dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1M count=10240
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 30.8501 s, 348 MB/s
p63:/r1#

p63:~# mount /dev/md0 /r1 -o noatime,barrier=0,data=writeback,nobh,commit=100,nouser_xattr,nodelalloc,min_batch_time=10000
p63:~#
p63:/r1# dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1M count=10240
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 31.0127 s, 346 MB/s
p63:/r1#

p63:~# mount /dev/md0 /r1 -o noatime,barrier=0,data=writeback,nobh,commit=100,nouser_xattr,nodelalloc,journal_ioprio=0
p63:~#
p63:/r1# dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1M count=10240
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 31.1559 s, 345 MB/s
p63:/r1# cd


p63:~# mount /dev/md0 /r1 -o noatime,barrier=0,data=writeback,nobh,commit=100,nouser_xattr,nodelalloc,journal_ioprio=7
p63:~#
p63:/r1# dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1M count=10240
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 31.4713 s, 341 MB/s
p63:/r1#

p63:~# mount /dev/md0 /r1 -o noatime,barrier=0,data=writeback,nobh,commit=100,nouser_xattr,nodelalloc,journal_async_commit
p63:~#
p63:/r1# dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1M count=10240
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 30.7633 s, 349 MB/s
p63:/r1#

p63:~# mount /dev/md0 /r1 -o noatime,barrier=0,data=writeback,nobh,commit=100,nouser_xattr,nodelalloc,journal_async_commit,oldalloc
p63:~#
p63:/r1# dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1M count=10240
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 30.7607 s, 349 MB/s
p63:/r1#

p63:~# mount /dev/md0 /r1 -o noatime,barrier=0,data=writeback,nobh,commit=100,nouser_xattr,nodelalloc,journal_async_commit,stripe=1024
p63:~#

Justin.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-28 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-27 13:47 mdadm software raid + ext4, capped at ~350MiB/s limitation/bug? Justin Piszcz
2010-02-27 21:01 ` Neil Brown
2010-02-27 21:30   ` Justin Piszcz
2010-02-28  0:09     ` Bill Davidsen
2010-02-28  9:45       ` Justin Piszcz
2010-02-28 14:26         ` Bill Davidsen
2010-02-28 15:00           ` Justin Piszcz [this message]
2010-02-28 14:33         ` Mike Snitzer
2010-02-28 15:03           ` Justin Piszcz
2010-02-28 15:36             ` Bill Davidsen
2010-02-28 20:03               ` Justin Piszcz

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