On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 09:44:13PM +0530, Ritesh Harjani (IBM) wrote: > On a 64k pagesize platforms (specially Power and/or aarch64) with 4k > filesystem blocksize, this patch should improve the performance by doing > only the subpage dirty data write. > > This should also reduce the write amplification since we can now track > subpage dirty status within state bitmaps. Earlier we had to > write the entire 64k page even if only a part of it (e.g. 4k) was > updated. > > Performance testing of below fio workload reveals ~16x performance > improvement on nvme with XFS (4k blocksize) on Power (64K pagesize) > FIO reported write bw scores improved from around ~28 MBps to ~452 MBps. > > <test_randwrite.fio> > [global] > ioengine=psync > rw=randwrite > overwrite=1 > pre_read=1 > direct=0 > bs=4k > size=1G > dir=./ > numjobs=8 > fdatasync=1 > runtime=60 > iodepth=64 > group_reporting=1 > > [fio-run] You really need to include this sentence from the cover letter in this patch: 2. Also our internal performance team reported that this patch improves there database workload performance by around ~83% (with XFS on Power) because that's far more meaningful than "Look, I cooked up an artificial workload where this makes a difference".
