Re: Slow file transfer speeds with CFQ IO scheduler in some cases

[Vitaly V. Bursov]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10 2008, Vitaly V. Bursov wrote:
>> Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 10 2008, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>>>> Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18473&action=view
>>>> Funny, I was going to ask the same question.  ;)  The reason Jens wants
>>>> you to try this patch is that nfsd may be farming off the I/O requests
>>>> to different threads which are then performing interleaved I/O.  The
>>>> above patch tries to detect this and allow cooperating processes to get
>>>> disk time instead of waiting for the idle timeout.
>>> Precisely :-)
>>>
>>> The only reason I haven't merged it yet is because of worry of extra
>>> cost, but I'll throw some SSD love at it and see how it turns out.
>>>
>> Sorry, but I get "oops" same moment nfs read transfer starts.
>> I can get directory list via nfs, read files locally (not
>> carefully tested, though)
>>
>> Dumps captured via netconsole, so these may not be completely accurate
>> but hopefully will give a hint.
> 
> Interesting, strange how that hasn't triggered here. Or perhaps the
> version that Jeff posted isn't the one I tried. Anyway, search for:
> 
>         RB_CLEAR_NODE(&cfqq->rb_node);
> 
> and add a
> 
>         RB_CLEAR_NODE(&cfqq->prio_node);
> 
> just below that. It's in cfq_find_alloc_queue(). I think that should fix
> it.
> 

Same problem.

I did make clean; make -j3; sync; on (2 times) patched kernel and it went OK
but It won't boot anymore with cfq with same error...

Switching cfq io scheduler at runtime (booting with "as") appears to work with
two parallel local dd reads.

But when NFS server starts up:

[  469.000105] BUG: unable to handle kernel
NULL pointer dereference
at 0000000000000000
[  469.000305] IP:
[<ffffffff81111f2a>] rb_erase+0x124/0x290
...

[  469.001905] Pid: 2296, comm: md1_raid5 Not tainted 2.6.27.5 #4
[  469.001982] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81111f2a>]
[<ffffffff81111f2a>] rb_erase+0x124/0x290
...
[  469.002509] Call Trace:
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff8110a0b9>] ? rb_erase_init+0x9/0x17
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff8110a0ff>] ? cfq_prio_tree_add+0x38/0xa8
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff8110b13d>] ? cfq_add_rq_rb+0xb5/0xc8
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff8110b1aa>] ? cfq_insert_request+0x5a/0x356
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff811000a1>] ? elv_insert+0x14b/0x218
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff810ab757>] ? bio_phys_segments+0xf/0x15
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff811028dc>] ? __make_request+0x3b9/0x3eb
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff8110120c>] ? generic_make_request+0x30b/0x346
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff811baaf4>] ? raid5_end_write_request+0x0/0xb8
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff811b8ade>] ? ops_run_io+0x16a/0x1c1
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff811ba534>] ? handle_stripe5+0x9b5/0x9d6
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff811bbf08>] ? handle_stripe+0xc3a/0xc6a
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff810296e5>] ? pick_next_task_fair+0x8d/0x9c
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff81253792>] ? thread_return+0x3a/0xaa
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff811bc2ce>] ? raid5d+0x396/0x3cd
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff81253bd8>] ? schedule_timeout+0x1e/0xad
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff811c716f>] ? md_thread+0xdd/0xf9
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff81044f9c>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff811c7092>] ? md_thread+0x0/0xf9
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff81044e80>] ? kthread+0x47/0x73
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff8102f867>] ? schedule_tail+0x28/0x60
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff8100cda9>] ? child_rip+0xa/0x11
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff81044e39>] ? kthread+0x0/0x73
[  469.002509]  [<ffffffff8100cd9f>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x11
...
[  469.002509] RIP
[<ffffffff81111f2a>] rb_erase+0x124/0x290
[  469.002509]  RSP <ffff88011d4c7a58>
[  469.002509] CR2: 0000000000000000
[  469.002509] ---[ end trace acdef779aeb56048 ]---


"Best" result I got with NFS was
avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           0,00    0,00    0,20    0,65    0,00   99,15

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s   rsec/s   wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda              11,30     0,00    7,60    0,00   245,60     0,00    32,32     0,01    1,18   0,79   0,60
sdb              12,10     0,00    8,00    0,00   246,40     0,00    30,80     0,01    1,62   0,62   0,50

and it lasted around 30 seconds.

-- 
Thanks,
Vitaly
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