[PATCH 2/3] md/raid5-cache: bump flush stripe batch size

Shaohua Li
2017-02-17T23:32:25Z

Bump the flush stripe batch size to 2048. For my 12 disks raid
array, the stripes takes:
12 * 4k * 2048 = 96MB

This is still quite small. A hardware raid card generally has 1GB size,
which we suggest the raid5-cache has similar cache size.

The advantage of a big batch size is we can dispatch a lot of IO in the
same time, then we can do some scheduling to make better IO pattern.

Last patch prioritizes stripes, so we don't worry about a big flush
stripe batch will starve normal stripes.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
---
drivers/md/raid5-cache.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c b/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
index 3f307be..b25512c 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
/* wake up reclaim thread periodically */
#define R5C_RECLAIM_WAKEUP_INTERVAL (30 * HZ)
/* start flush with these full stripes */
-#define R5C_FULL_STRIPE_FLUSH_BATCH 256
+#define R5C_FULL_STRIPE_FLUSH_BATCH 2048
/* reclaim stripes in groups */
#define R5C_RECLAIM_STRIPE_GROUP (NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS * 2)

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