Hi - I found below conversation and it is on the same line as I wanted some input from mailing list. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147569860526197&w=2 I can do testing on any WIP item as Omar mentioned in above discussion. https://github.com/osandov/linux/tree/blk-mq-iosched Is there any workaround/alternative in latest upstream kernel, if user wants to see limited penalty for Sequential Work load on HDD ? ` Kashyap > -----Original Message----- > From: Kashyap Desai [mailto:kashyap.desai@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2016 3:39 PM > To: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Device or HBA level QD throttling creates randomness in sequetial > workload > > [ Apologize, if you find more than one instance of my email. > Web based email client has some issue, so now trying git send mail.] > > Hi, > > I am doing some performance tuning in MR driver to understand how sdev > queue depth and hba queue depth play role in IO submission from above layer. > I have 24 JBOD connected to MR 12GB controller and I can see performance for > 4K Sequential work load as below. > > HBA QD for MR controller is 4065 and Per device QD is set to 32 > > queue depth from <fio> 256 reports 300K IOPS queue depth from <fio> 128 > reports 330K IOPS queue depth from <fio> 64 reports 360K IOPS queue depth > from <fio> 32 reports 510K IOPS > > In MR driver I added debug print and confirm that more IO come to driver as > random IO whenever I have <fio> queue depth more than 32. > > I have debug using scsi logging level and blktrace as well. Below is snippet of > logs using scsi logging level. In summary, if SML do flow control of IO due to > Device QD or HBA QD, IO coming to LLD is more random pattern. > > I see IO coming to driver is not sequential. > > [79546.912041] sd 18:2:21:0: [sdy] tag#854 CDB: Write(10) 2a 00 00 03 c0 3b 00 > 00 01 00 [79546.912049] sd 18:2:21:0: [sdy] tag#855 CDB: Write(10) 2a 00 00 03 > c0 3c 00 00 01 00 [79546.912053] sd 18:2:21:0: [sdy] tag#886 CDB: Write(10) 2a > 00 00 03 c0 5b 00 00 01 00 > > <KD> After LBA "00 03 c0 3c" next command is with LBA "00 03 c0 5b". > Two Sequence are overlapped due to sdev QD throttling. > > [79546.912056] sd 18:2:21:0: [sdy] tag#887 CDB: Write(10) 2a 00 00 03 c0 5c 00 > 00 01 00 [79546.912250] sd 18:2:21:0: [sdy] tag#856 CDB: Write(10) 2a 00 00 03 > c0 3d 00 00 01 00 [79546.912257] sd 18:2:21:0: [sdy] tag#888 CDB: Write(10) 2a > 00 00 03 c0 5d 00 00 01 00 [79546.912259] sd 18:2:21:0: [sdy] tag#857 CDB: > Write(10) 2a 00 00 03 c0 3e 00 00 01 00 [79546.912268] sd 18:2:21:0: [sdy] > tag#858 CDB: Write(10) 2a 00 00 03 c0 3f 00 00 01 00 > > If scsi_request_fn() breaks due to unavailability of device queue (due to below > check), will there be any side defect as I observe ? > if (!scsi_dev_queue_ready(q, sdev)) > break; > > If I reduce HBA QD and make sure IO from above layer is throttled due to HBA > QD, there is a same impact. > MR driver use host wide shared tag map. > > Can someone help me if this can be tunable in LLD providing additional settings > or it is expected behavior ? Problem I am facing is, I am not able to figure out > optimal device queue depth for different configuration and work load. > > Thanks, Kashyap -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
