Dne 19. 04. 19 v 16:40 Ryan Norwood napsal(a):
We have been using dm-thin layered above VDO and have noticed that our
performance is not optimal for large sequential writes as max_sectors_kb
and max_hw_sectors_kb for all thin devices are set to 4k due to the VDO layer
beneath.
This effectively eliminates the performance optimizations for sequential
writes to skip both zeroing and COW overhead when a write fully overlaps a
thin chunk as all bios are split into 4k which always be less than the 64k
thin chunk minimum.
Is this known behavior? Is there any way around this issue?
Hi
If you require highest performance - I'd suggest to avoid using VDO.
VDO replaces performance with better space utilization.
It works on 4KiB block - so by design it's going to be slow.
I'd also probably not mix 2 provisioning technologies together - there
is nontrivial amount of problematic states when the whole device stack
runs out of real physical space.
Regards
Zdenek
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