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From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raid5 grow reshaping speed is unchangeable
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:38:12 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4775CF34.7030400@sauce.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <380-2200712528192139967@mochamail.com>

Cody Yellan wrote:

> You are right, Richard.  RHEL5 had a stripe_cache_size of 256 when
> the reshape began.  I increased it to 1024 and the reshape speed
> doubled to 4500K/s.  I did not see any increase in memory usage.  I
> tried 2048 and then 4096 but saw no difference in speed.

Sorry, I did not make myself clear.

Back when I was seeing the slow resync speeds, it was due to larger than 
default stripe_cache_size - I had increased to 16384.

When this was reduced back to the default, which I suspect is 256, 
speeds were back up to more normal levels - much faster than the 4.5MB/s 
you are seeing.

At some point, this issue was fixed and currently on 2.6.22, with a 
stripe_cache_size of 16384 and a 4 x 500GB SATA II md RAID 5, resync 
speed is 162MB/s.

Perhaps somthing different occurs on a reshape, (which I have only now 
realised you were doing).

Regards,

Richard

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-29  4:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-28 19:21 raid5 grow reshaping speed is unchangeable Cody Yellan
2007-12-29  4:38 ` Richard Scobie [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-29  0:52 Cody Yellan
2007-12-27  7:46 Cody Yellan
2007-12-28  0:57 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-12-27  5:22 Cody Yellan
2007-12-27 22:10 ` Nagilum
2007-12-28  0:53 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-12-28  3:13   ` Richard Scobie

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