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SubjectRe: 2.6.4-mm2
On Thu, Mar 18 2004, markw@osdl.org wrote:
> On 18 Mar, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 18 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> > Comparing one pair of readprofile results, I find it curious that
> >> > dm_table_unplug_all and dm_table_any_congested show up near the top of a
> >> > 2.6.4-mm2 profile when they haven't shown up before in 2.6.3.
> >>
> >> 14015190 poll_idle 241641.2069
> >> 175162 generic_unplug_device 1317.0075
> >> 165480 __copy_from_user_ll 1272.9231
> >> 161151 __copy_to_user_ll 1342.9250
> >> 152106 schedule 85.0705
> >> 142395 DAC960_LP_InterruptHandler 761.4706
> >> 113677 dm_table_unplug_all 1386.3049
> >> 65420 __make_request 45.5571
> >> 64832 dm_table_any_congested 697.1183
> >> 37913 try_to_wake_up 32.2939
> >>
> >> That's broken. How many disks are involve in the DM stack?
> >>
> >> The relevant code was reworked subsequent to 2.6.4-mm2. Maybe we fixed
> >> this, but I cannot immediately explain what you're seeing here.
> >
> > Ugh that looks really bad, I wonder how it could possibly ever be this
> > bad. Mark, please do do a run with 2.6.5-rc1-mm2, I'd very much like to
> > see the profile there. If things get this bad, I need to think some more
> > about how to best handle the 'when to invoke request_fn on unplug calls'
> > logic again.
> >
> > Actually, please also do a run with 2.6.5-rc1-mm2 + inlined patch. For
> > non-stacked dm on dm it should work and could make a lot of difference
> > for you.
> >
> > --- drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c~ 2004-03-18 20:26:17.088531084 +0100
> > +++ drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c 2004-03-18 20:26:44.773554953 +0100
> > @@ -1134,11 +1134,8 @@
> > if (test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED, &q->queue_flags))
> > return;
> >
> > - /*
> > - * always call down, since we can race now with setting the plugged
> > - * bit outside of the queue lock
> > - */
> > - blk_remove_plug(q);
> > + if (!blk_remove_plug(q))
> > + return;
> >
> > /*
> > * was plugged, fire request_fn if queue has stuff to do
> >
>
> http://developer.osdl.org/markw/dbt2-pgsql/409/
>
> There are the results with 2.6.5-rc1-mm2 with your patch with a 512kb
> stripe width. The throughput didn't improve but it did cut the ticks
> for dm_table_unplug_all in half. Should I continue with smaller stripe
> widths?

Wait for a real patch first, I'll have one for you in an hour or two.

--
Jens Axboe

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