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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
To: Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempesta@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: agcount for 2TB, 4TB and 8TB drives
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 08:38:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171006153803.GI7122@magnolia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJH6TXgShHj6UynrNAs8eG0ZRFz5gSGGY1ZARPSofsNibi0Grg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 10:46:20AM +0200, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
> Hi to all,
> i'm new to XFS.
> 
> Which is the proper agcount for 2TB, 4TB and 8TB drives (not part of any RAID) ?
> 
> mkfs.xfs automatically choosen 4 AGs. Isn't this too low ?

No.  Have a look at calc_default_ag_geometry in libxcmd/topology.c for
how we calculate the default AG count / size.  4TB single-disks and
smaller get 4 AGs; larger than that get 1AG per TB.  RAID arrays are
different.

Semirelated question: for a solid state disk on a machine with high CPU
counts do we prefer agcount == cpucount to take advantage of the
high(er) iops and lack of seek time to increase parallelism?

(Not that I've studied that in depth.)

--D

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-06 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-06  8:46 agcount for 2TB, 4TB and 8TB drives Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-10-06 15:38 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2017-10-06 16:18   ` Eric Sandeen
2017-10-06 22:20     ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-06 22:21       ` Eric Sandeen
2017-10-09  8:05         ` Avi Kivity
2017-10-09 11:23           ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-09 15:46             ` Avi Kivity
2017-10-09 22:03               ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-10  9:07                 ` Avi Kivity
2017-10-10 22:55                   ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-13  8:13                     ` Avi Kivity
2017-10-14 22:42                       ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-15  9:36                         ` Avi Kivity
2017-10-15 22:00                           ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-16 10:00                             ` Avi Kivity
2017-10-16 22:31                               ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-18  7:31                             ` Christoph Hellwig

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