Re: [ata] 0568e61225: stress-ng.copy-file.ops_per_sec -15.0% regression

John Garry
2022-08-12T17:17:47Z

On 12/08/2022 16:41, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>> we noticed the commit is already in mainline now, and in our tests, there is
>>> still similar regression and also on other platforms.
>>> could you guide us how to check "which host driver is being used for this
>>> test"? hope to supply some useful information.
>>>
>> For me, a complete kernel log may help.
> I had a look yesterday with my test rig. I did not see any difference in the
> default max_sectors_kb values for various drives between 5.18 and 5.19 (current
> linus tree). The test machine has 2 AHCI adapters: Intel and Marvell. Both use
> the regular AHCI driver. I have another rig with different ATA adapters but it
> is powered down and I am traveling... So cannot test that right now.
>

FWIW, on QEMU I get a difference for IDE disk for ata_piix host.

Interestingly ata dev max_sectors kb also gets capped from 32MB (LBA48)
-> 256KB due to swiotlb max mapping size. (It would be capped by shost
default max sectors 512KB without that swiotlb limit). I assume capping
due to swiotlb limit is not occuring on Oliver's machine.

thanks,
John

[ 1.497233] ata7: found unknown device (class 0)
[ 1.498341] ata7.00: ATA-7: QEMU HARDDISK, 2.5+, max UDMA/100
[ 1.499030] ata7.00: 209716 sectors, multi 16: LBA48
[ 1.623795] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 1.624633] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 1.633395] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 1.634200] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 1.635094] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 1.635887] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 1.636748] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA QEMU HARDDISK
2.5+ PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 1.641298] sd 6:0:0:0: [sda] 209716 512-byte logical blocks: (107
MB/102 MiB)
[ 1.642188] sd 6:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 1.642770] sd 6:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 1.642783] sd 6:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 1.644149] sd 6:0:0:0: [sda] Preferred minimum I/O size 512 bytes
[ 1.645142] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 1.655145] sd 6:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk