On 2012-07-16 15:46 NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Wrote: >On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:31:11 +0800 majianpeng <majianpeng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> To improve write perfomance by decreasing the preread stripe,only move >> IO_THRESHOLD stripes from delay_list to hold_list once. >> >> Using the follow command: >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=2M count=52100. >> >> At default condition: speed is 95MB/s. >> At the condition of preread_bypass_threshold was equal zero:speed is 105MB/s. >> Using this patch:speed is 123MB/s. >> >> If preread_bypass_threshold was zero,the performance will be better,but >> not better than this patch. >> I think maybe two reason: >> 1:If bio is REQ_SYNC >> 2:In function __get_priority_stripe(): >> >> } else if (!list_empty(&conf->hold_list) && >> >> ((conf->bypass_threshold && >> >> conf->bypass_count > conf->bypass_threshold) || >> >> atomic_read(&conf->pending_full_writes) == 0)) { >> Preread_bypass_threshold is one condition of getting stripe from >> hold_list.So only control the number of hold_list can get better >> performance. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> drivers/md/raid5.c | 3 +++ >> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c >> index 04348d7..a6749bb 100644 >> --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c >> +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c >> @@ -3662,6 +3662,7 @@ finish: >> >> static void raid5_activate_delayed(struct r5conf *conf) >> { >> + int count = 0; >> if (atomic_read(&conf->preread_active_stripes) < IO_THRESHOLD) { >> while (!list_empty(&conf->delayed_list)) { >> struct list_head *l = conf->delayed_list.next; >> @@ -3672,6 +3673,8 @@ static void raid5_activate_delayed(struct r5conf *conf) >> if (!test_and_set_bit(STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE, &sh->state)) >> atomic_inc(&conf->preread_active_stripes); >> list_add_tail(&sh->lru, &conf->hold_list); >> + if (++count >= IO_THRESHOLD) >> + break; >> } >> } >> } > > >I tried this patch - against my current for-next tree - on my own modest >hardware and could not measure any difference in write throughput. > >Maybe some other patch has fixed something. > >However it is still reading a lot during a write-only test and that is not >ideal. It would be nice if we could arrange that it didn't read at all. > By compare to kernel 2.6.18/2.6.32, there are not any reading. So i think it should more work to do . >NeilBRown >?韬{.n?????%??檩??w?{.n???{炳盯w???塄}?财??j:+v??????2??璀??摺?囤??z夸z罐?+?????w棹f