Re: [RFC] md/raid5: optimize RAID5 performance.

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On Sun, 26 Nov 2023 22:44:45 -0800
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Shushu,
> 
> the work certainly looks interesting!
> 
> However:
> 
> > Optimized by using fine-grained locks, customized data structures,
> > and scattered address space. Achieves significant improvements in
> > both throughput and latency.
> 
> this is a lot of work for a single Linux patch, we usually do that
> work pice by pice instead of complete rewrite, and for such
> signigicant changes the commit logs also tend to be a bit extensive.
> 
> I'm also not quite sure what scattered address spaces are - I bet
> reading the paper (I plan to get to that) would explain it, but it
> also helps to explain the idea in the commit message.
> 
> That's my high level nitpicking for now, I'll try to read the paper
> and the patch in detail and come back later.
> 
> 

For sure the paper provides a lot more context. Is there more
performance data avialble, like a general sweep of various IO sizes,
patterns and queue depths?  ALso, what kind of data integrity testing
has been done?




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