Re: request baset device mapper in Linux

From: Lukas Hejtmanek
Date: Thu Sep 29 2011 - 16:58:31 EST


On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 02:50:08PM +0900, Jun'ichi Nomura wrote:
> 2.6.32.36
> no-multipath: 2.8 GB/s
> multipath: 600 MB/s
> multipath w/ patch: 2.8-2.9 GB/s
>
> 3.0.3
> no-multipath: ??
> multipath: 2.5 GB/s
> multipath w/ patch: 2.5 GB/s(?)
>
> Have you tried 3.0.3 without multipath?

yes, 3GB/s and only kwapd0 and kswapd1 is running, no kworker or ksoftirqd..

> > top looks like this:
> > 63 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 38 0.0 0:16.65 kswapd1
> > 18 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 32 0.0 0:14.38 kworker/4:0
> > 19 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 30 0.0 0:20.88 ksoftirqd/4
> > 153 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 29 0.0 0:14.46 kworker/4:2
> > 62 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 22 0.0 0:09.44 kswapd0
>
> dm-multipath itself does not use workqueue for normal I/Os.
> So you might be hitting a different problem.

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Lukáš Hejtmánek
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