Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Oct 2016 08:41:23 -0700 | From | Omar Sandoval <> | Subject | Re: Device or HBA level QD throttling creates randomness in sequetial workload |
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 06:35:01PM +0530, Kashyap Desai wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 05:43:35PM +0530, Kashyap Desai wrote: > > > Hi - > > > > > > I found below conversation and it is on the same line as I wanted some > > > input from mailing list. > > > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147569860526197&w=2 > > > > > > I can do testing on any WIP item as Omar mentioned in above > discussion. > > > https://github.com/osandov/linux/tree/blk-mq-iosched > > I tried build kernel using this repo, but looks like it is not allowed to > reboot due to some changes in <block> layer.
Did you build the most up-to-date version of that branch? I've been force pushing to it, so the commit id that you built would be useful. What boot failure are you seeing?
> > > > Are you using blk-mq for this disk? If not, then the work there won't > affect you. > > YES. I am using blk-mq for my test. I also confirm if use_blk_mq is > disable, Sequential work load issue is not seen and <cfq> scheduling works > well.
Ah, okay, perfect. Can you send the fio job file you're using? Hard to tell exactly what's going on without the details. A sequential workload with just one submitter is about as easy as it gets, so this _should_ be behaving nicely.
> > > > > Is there any workaround/alternative in latest upstream kernel, if user > > > wants to see limited penalty for Sequential Work load on HDD ? > > > > > > ` Kashyap > > >
P.S., your emails are being marked as spam by Gmail. Actually, Gmail seems to mark just about everything I get from Broadcom as spam due to failed DMARC.
-- Omar
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