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From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, dchinner@redhat.com,
	sedat.dilek@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET v5] Make background writeback great again for the first time
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 09:47:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160516074741.GA12026@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57361CF6.3040202@kernel.dk>

On Fri 13-05-16 12:29:10, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Thanks Jan, this is great and super useful! I'm revamping certain parts of
> it to deal with write back caching better, and I'll take a look at the
> regressions that you reported.
> 
> What kind of SSD is this? I'm assuming it's SATA (QD=32), and then it would
> probably be a safe assumption that it's flagging itself as having a volatile
> write back cache, would that be a correct assumption?

Yes, it is SATA with writeback cache.

> Are you using scsi-mq, or do you have an IO scheduler attached to it?

The disk was using IO scheduler, however at this point I'm not 100% sure
which scheduler (deadline or cfq) was the default one for the distro that
was installed. The machine is currently testing something else so I cannot
reinstall it and check. Maybe I can rerun some tests later in the week when
the machine gets freed with scsi-mq or deadline IO scheduler so that we
have 100% certain config.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

      reply	other threads:[~2016-05-16  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-26 15:55 [PATCHSET v5] Make background writeback great again for the first time Jens Axboe
2016-04-26 15:55 ` [PATCH 1/8] block: add WRITE_BG Jens Axboe
2016-04-26 15:55 ` [PATCH 2/8] writeback: add wbc_to_write_cmd() Jens Axboe
2016-04-26 15:55 ` [PATCH 3/8] writeback: use WRITE_BG for kupdate and background writeback Jens Axboe
2016-04-26 15:55 ` [PATCH 4/8] writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty_pages() Jens Axboe
2016-04-26 15:55 ` [PATCH 5/8] block: add code to track actual device queue depth Jens Axboe
2016-04-26 15:55 ` [PATCH 6/8] block: add scalable completion tracking of requests Jens Axboe
2016-05-05  7:52   ` Ming Lei
2016-04-26 15:55 ` [PATCH 7/8] wbt: add general throttling mechanism Jens Axboe
2016-04-27 12:06   ` xiakaixu
2016-04-27 15:21     ` Jens Axboe
2016-04-28  3:29       ` xiakaixu
2016-04-28 11:05   ` Jan Kara
2016-04-28 18:53     ` Jens Axboe
2016-04-28 19:03       ` Jens Axboe
2016-05-03  9:34       ` Jan Kara
2016-05-03 14:23         ` Jens Axboe
2016-05-03 15:22           ` Jan Kara
2016-05-03 15:32             ` Jens Axboe
2016-05-03 15:40         ` Jan Kara
2016-05-03 15:48           ` Jan Kara
2016-05-03 16:59             ` Jens Axboe
2016-05-03 18:14               ` Jens Axboe
2016-05-03 19:07                 ` Jens Axboe
2016-04-26 15:55 ` [PATCH 8/8] writeback: throttle buffered writeback Jens Axboe
2016-04-27 18:01 ` [PATCHSET v5] Make background writeback great again for the first time Jan Kara
2016-04-27 18:17   ` Jens Axboe
2016-04-27 20:37     ` Jens Axboe
2016-04-27 20:59       ` Jens Axboe
2016-04-28  4:06         ` xiakaixu
2016-04-28 18:36           ` Jens Axboe
2016-04-28 11:54         ` Jan Kara
2016-04-28 18:46           ` Jens Axboe
2016-05-03 12:17             ` Jan Kara
2016-05-03 12:40               ` Chris Mason
2016-05-03 13:06                 ` Jan Kara
2016-05-03 13:42                   ` Chris Mason
2016-05-03 13:57                     ` Jan Kara
2016-05-11 16:36               ` Jan Kara
2016-05-13 18:29                 ` Jens Axboe
2016-05-16  7:47                   ` Jan Kara [this message]

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