On 2015-01-12 10:11, Patrik Lundquist wrote:
On 12 January 2015 at 15:54, Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferro...@gmail.com> wrote:

Another thing to consider is that the kernel's default I/O scheduler and the 
default parameters for that I/O scheduler are almost always suboptimal for 
SSD's, and this tends to show far more with BTRFS than anything else.  
Personally I've found that using the CFQ I/O scheduler with the following 
parameters works best for a majority of SSD's:
1. slice_idle=0
2. back_seek_penalty=1
3. back_seek_max set equal to the size in sectors of the device
4. nr_requests and quantum set to the hardware command queue depth

You can easily set these persistently for a given device with a udev rule like 
this:
   KERNEL=='sda', SUBSYSTEM=='block', ACTION=='add', ATTR{queue/scheduler}='cfq', 
ATTR{queue/iosched/back_seek_penalty}='1', 
ATTR{queue/iosched/back_seek_max}='<device_size>', 
ATTR{queue/iosched/quantum}='128', ATTR{queue/iosched/slice_idle}='0', 
ATTR{queue/nr_requests}='128'

Make sure to replace '128' in the rule with whatever the command queue depth is for 
the device in question (It's usually 128 or 256, occasionally more), and 
<device_size> with the size of the device in kibibytes.


So is it "size in sectors of the device" or "size of the device in
kibibytes" for back_seek_max? :-)

size in kibibytes, sorry about the confusion, I forgot to correct every instance of saying it was size in sectors after I reread the documentation.

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