Hi,
I've seeing really slow I/O writes on xfs when doing a dd with a seek
offset to a file on an xfs file system which is loop mounted.
Reproduced on Linux 3.6.0-rc5 and 3.4
How to reproduce:
dd if=/dev/zero of=xfs.img bs=1M count=1024
mkfs.xfs -f xfs.img
sudo mount -o loop -t xfs xfs.img /mnt/test
First create a large file, write performance is excellent:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test/big bs=1M count=500
500+0 records in
500+0 records out
524288000 bytes (524 MB) copied, 1.69451 s, 309 MB/s
..next seek and write some more blocks, write performance is poor:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test/big obs=4K count=8192 seek=131072
8192+0 records in
1024+0 records out
4194304 bytes (4.2 MB) copied, 47.0644 s, 89.1 kB/s
Using blktrace and seektracer I've captured the I/O on the block device
containing the xfs.img and I'm seeing ~55-70 seeks per second during the
slow writes, which seems excessive.
I can reproduce this on hardware with 1, 4 or 8 CPUs.
I've testing this with other file systems I and don't see this issue, so
it looks like an xfs + loop mounted issue.
Is this a known performance "feature"?
Colin
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