Re: [patch for playing] 2.5.65 patch to support > 256 disks

[Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>]

Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> On Saturday 22 March 2003 04:05 am, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>>OK, thanks.  So with 48 disks you've lost five megabytes to blkdev_requests
>>and deadline_drq objects.  With 4000 disks, you're toast.  That's enough
>>request structures to put 200 gigabytes of memory under I/O ;)
>>
>>We need to make the request structures dymanically allocated for other
>>reasons (which I cannot immediately remember) but it didn't happen.  I
>>guess we have some motivation now.
> 
> 
> Here is the list of slab caches which consumed more than 1 MB
> in the process of inserting 4000 disks.
> 
> #insmod scsi_debug.ko add_host=4 num_devs=1000
> 
> deadline_drq    before:1280 after:1025420 diff:1024140 size:64 incr:65544960
> blkdev_requests  before:1280 after:1025400 diff:1024120 size:156 incr:159762720
> 
> * deadline_drq, blkdev_requests consumed almost 80 MB. We need to fix this.
> 
> inode_cache     before:700 after:140770 diff:140070 size:364 incr:50985480
> dentry_cache    before:4977 after:145061 diff:140084 size:172 incr:24094448
> 
> * inode cache increased by 50 MB, dentry cache 24 MB. 
> It looks like we cached 140,000 inodes. I wonder why ? 
 > <snip/>

Badari,
What number do you get from
  # cd /sys; du -a | wc
when you have 4000 disks?

With two disks the count on my system is 528.

Also scsi_debug should use only 8 MB (default) for
simulated storage shared between all pseudo disks
(i.e. not 8 MB per simulated host).

Doug Gilbert