Re: severe regression with random I/O from (at least) 4.14?

From: Paolo Valente
Date: Thu Dec 21 2017 - 06:09:56 EST




> Il giorno 21 dic 2017, alle ore 11:57, Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
>
> Hi,
> a few minutes ago I bumped into this apparent severe regression, with 4.15-rc4 and an SSD PLEXTOR PX-256M5S. If, with none as I/O scheduler, I do
> fio --name=global --rw=randread --size=512m --name=job1
>
> I get
> read : io=524288KB, bw=34402KB/s, iops=8600, runt= 15240msec
>
> This device had to reach at least 40 KIOPS. I retried with mq-deadline too, and then with a 4.14, same outcome in all cases. I asked some colleague to repeat the test with his/her device. Same outcome, so far, also with an SSD 850 EVO 250GB.
>
> I'm sorry if I'm making some colossal mistake.
>

Forget it, sorry. I was confused by a failed test where iodepth was higher than 1, and I am sleeping too little ...

Thanks,
Paolo

> Thanks,
> Paolo
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