Re: [PATCH] MD: make bio mergeable

[Holger Kiehl]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Shaohua Li wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 08:00:22PM +0000, Holger Kiehl wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > 
> > > blk_queue_split marks bio unmergeable, which makes sense for normal bio.
> > > But if dispatching the bio to underlayer disk, the blk_queue_split
> > > checks are invalid, hence it's possible the bio becomes mergeable.
> > > 
> > > In the reported bug, this bug causes trim against raid0 performance slash
> > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117051
> > > 
> > This patch makes a huge difference. On a system with two Samsung 850 Pro
> > in a MD Raid0 setup the time for fstrim went down from ~30min to 18sec!
> > 
> > However, on another system with two Intel P3700 1.6TB NVMe PCIe SSD's
> > also setup as one big MD Raid0, the patch does not make any difference
> > at all. fstrim takes more then 4 hours!
> 
> Does the raid0 cross two partitions or two SSD?
> 
Two SSD's. Where it works, for the two Samsung 850 Pro SATA SSD it was
via partitions.

> can you post blktrace data in the bugzilloa, I'll track the bug there.
> 
I did the blktrace on the two md raid0 devices /dev/nvme[01]n1 for 2 minutes
and attached them to the bug 117051 as a tar.bz2 file:

   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117051

Please just ask if I have forgotten anything. And many thanks for looking
at this and all the good work!

Regards,
Holger