linux-raid.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reading takes 100% precedence over writes for mdadm+raid5?
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:18:52 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18259.15708.870492.17273@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Justin Piszcz on Sunday December 2

On Sunday December 2, jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com wrote:
> 
> Was curious if when running 10 DD's (which are writing to the RAID 5) 
> fine, no issues, suddenly all go into D-state and let the read/give it 
> 100% priority?

So are you saying that the writes completely stalled while the read
was progressing?  How exactly did you measure that?

What kernel version are you running.

> 
> Is this normal?

It shouldn't be.

NeilBrown

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-02 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-02 23:09 Reading takes 100% precedence over writes for mdadm+raid5? Justin Piszcz
2007-12-02 23:18 ` Neil Brown [this message]
2007-12-02 23:26   ` Justin Piszcz
2007-12-06  1:27     ` Jon Nelson
2007-12-06  9:06       ` Justin Piszcz
2007-12-06  9:26         ` David Rees
2007-12-06  9:27           ` Justin Piszcz
2007-12-06 13:43           ` Jon Nelson
2007-12-06 16:11 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-12-09  0:13   ` Jon Nelson

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=18259.15708.870492.17273@notabene.brown \
    --to=neilb@suse.de \
    --cc=jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com \
    --cc=linux-raid@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).