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From: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
To: Roberto Spadim <roberto@spadim.com.br>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, neilb@suse.de, axboe@kernel.dk
Subject: Re: [patch 2/3 v3] raid1: read balance chooses idlest disk for SSD
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:02:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120702030245.GB29770@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABYL=TpD7D0ec40fz6uo4LCPAKuxtkx5rD3JXfWTtuEYp3NLYQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 11:13:42PM -0300, Roberto Spadim wrote:
> nice =) very very nice =)
> maybe to get better than this... select the disk with min(pending time)
> 
> time could be estimated with something like:
> (distance * time/distance unit) + (blocks to read/write * time to
> read/write 1 block) + (non sequencial penalty time)

I didn't think there is way to measure request time. Disks support NCQ, they
can dispatch several requests at one time and finish them almost at the same
time. I used to measure this time (to make CFQ ioscheduler self tune), but
failed.

Thanks,
Shaohua

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-02  3:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-02  1:08 [patch 0/3 v3] Optimize raid1 read balance for SSD Shaohua Li
2012-07-02  1:08 ` [patch 1/3 v3] raid1: make sequential read detection per disk based Shaohua Li
2012-07-04  5:38   ` NeilBrown
2012-07-02  1:08 ` [patch 2/3 v3] raid1: read balance chooses idlest disk for SSD Shaohua Li
2012-07-02  2:13   ` Roberto Spadim
2012-07-02  3:02     ` Shaohua Li [this message]
2012-07-02  3:57       ` Roberto Spadim
2012-07-02  4:33         ` Roberto Spadim
2012-07-02  4:31       ` Roberto Spadim
2012-07-02  4:36         ` Roberto Spadim
2012-07-04  5:45   ` NeilBrown
2012-07-02  1:08 ` [patch 3/3 v3] raid1: prevent merging too large request Shaohua Li
2012-07-04  5:59   ` NeilBrown
2012-07-04  8:01     ` Shaohua Li

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