Re: [Regression] ext4: changes to mb_optimize_scan cause issues on Raspberry Pi

[Stefan Wahren]

Hi Jan,

Am 28.07.22 um 12:00 schrieb Jan Kara:
> Hello!
> Can you run "iostat -x 1" while the download is running so that we can see
> roughly how the IO pattern looks?
>
> Also can get filesystem metadata image of your card like:
>    e2image -r <fs-device> - | gzip >/tmp/ext4-image.gz
>
> and put it somewhere for download? The image will contain only fs metadata,
> not data so it should be relatively small and we won't have access to your
> secrets ;). With the image we'd be able to see how the free space looks
> like and whether it perhaps does not trigger some pathological behavior.
>
> My current suspicion is that because the new allocator strategy spreads
> allocations over more block groups, we end up with more open erase blocks
> on the SD card which forces the firmware to do more garbage collection and
> RMW of erase blocks and write performance tanks...
>
> Thanks.
thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately i'm busy the next days, so it 
will take some time to provide this.
> 								Honza