Re: ext4 write performance regression in 3.6-rc1 on RAID0/5
From: NeilBrown
Date: Wed Aug 22 2012 - 02:00:55 EST
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:57:02 +0800 Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> -#define NR_STRIPES 256
> +#define NR_STRIPES 1024
Changing one magic number into another magic number might help your case, but
it not really a general solution.
Possibly making sure that max_nr_stripes is at least some multiple of the
chunk size might make sense, but I wouldn't want to see a very large multiple.
I thing the problems with RAID5 are deeper than that. Hopefully I'll figure
out exactly what the best fix is soon - I'm trying to look into it.
I don't think the size of the cache is a big part of the solution. I think
correct scheduling of IO is the real answer.
Thanks,
NeilBrown
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