Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-06-13 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 6/12/19 10:46 PM, Paolo Valente wrote: > >> Il giorno 12 giu 2019, alle ore 00:34, Srivatsa S. Bhat >> ha scritto: >> [...] >> >> Hi Paolo, >> > > Hi > >> Hope you are doing great! >> > > Sort of, thanks :) > >> I was wondering if you got a chance to post these patches to LKML for >> revi

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-06-13 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 6/13/19 1:20 AM, Jan Kara wrote: > On Wed 12-06-19 12:36:53, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> >> [ Adding Greg to CC ] >> >> On 6/12/19 6:04 AM, Jan Kara wrote: >>> On Tue 11-06-19 15:34:48, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: On 6/2/19 12:04 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > On 5/30/19 3:45 AM, Paolo Valent

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-06-13 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 6/12/19 11:02 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 12:36:53PM -0700, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> >> [ Adding Greg to CC ] >> >> On 6/12/19 6:04 AM, Jan Kara wrote: >>> On Tue 11-06-19 15:34:48, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: On 6/2/19 12:04 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > On 5/

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-06-13 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 12 giu 2019, alle ore 00:34, Srivatsa S. Bhat > ha scritto: > > On 6/2/19 12:04 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> On 5/30/19 3:45 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >>> > [...] >>> At any rate, since you pointed out that you are interested in >>> out-of-the-box performance, let me complete the

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-06-13 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 12:36:53PM -0700, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > > [ Adding Greg to CC ] > > On 6/12/19 6:04 AM, Jan Kara wrote: > > On Tue 11-06-19 15:34:48, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > >> On 6/2/19 12:04 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > >>> On 5/30/19 3:45 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > > >> [..

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-06-13 Thread Jan Kara
On Wed 12-06-19 12:36:53, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > > [ Adding Greg to CC ] > > On 6/12/19 6:04 AM, Jan Kara wrote: > > On Tue 11-06-19 15:34:48, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > >> On 6/2/19 12:04 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > >>> On 5/30/19 3:45 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > > >> [...] > At any

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-06-13 Thread Jens Axboe
On 6/12/19 1:36 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > > [ Adding Greg to CC ] > > On 6/12/19 6:04 AM, Jan Kara wrote: >> On Tue 11-06-19 15:34:48, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >>> On 6/2/19 12:04 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: On 5/30/19 3:45 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > >>> [...] > At any rate, since

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-06-12 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
[ Adding Greg to CC ] On 6/12/19 6:04 AM, Jan Kara wrote: > On Tue 11-06-19 15:34:48, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> On 6/2/19 12:04 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >>> On 5/30/19 3:45 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >> [...] At any rate, since you pointed out that you are interested in out-of-t

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-06-12 Thread Jan Kara
On Tue 11-06-19 15:34:48, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > On 6/2/19 12:04 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > > On 5/30/19 3:45 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > >> > [...] > >> At any rate, since you pointed out that you are interested in > >> out-of-the-box performance, let me complete the context: in case > >> low

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-06-11 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 6/2/19 12:04 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > On 5/30/19 3:45 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >> [...] >> At any rate, since you pointed out that you are interested in >> out-of-the-box performance, let me complete the context: in case >> low_latency is left set, one gets, in return for this 12% loss, >>

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-06-02 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 5/30/19 3:45 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > > >> Il giorno 30 mag 2019, alle ore 10:29, Srivatsa S. Bhat >> ha scritto: >> [...] >> >> Your fix held up well under my testing :) >> > > Great! > >> As for throughput, with low_latency = 1, I get around 1.4 MB/s with >> bfq (vs 1.6 MB/s with mq-de

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-30 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 30 mag 2019, alle ore 10:29, Srivatsa S. Bhat > ha scritto: > > On 5/29/19 12:41 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >> >> >>> Il giorno 29 mag 2019, alle ore 03:09, Srivatsa S. Bhat >>> ha scritto: >>> >>> On 5/23/19 11:51 PM, Paolo Valente wrote: > Il giorno 24 mag 2019, alle

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-30 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 5/23/19 4:32 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > On 5/22/19 7:30 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> On 5/22/19 3:54 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >>> >>> Il giorno 22 mag 2019, alle ore 12:01, Srivatsa S. Bhat ha scritto: On 5/22/19 2:09 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > > First, thank y

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-30 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 5/29/19 12:41 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > > >> Il giorno 29 mag 2019, alle ore 03:09, Srivatsa S. Bhat >> ha scritto: >> >> On 5/23/19 11:51 PM, Paolo Valente wrote: >>> Il giorno 24 mag 2019, alle ore 01:43, Srivatsa S. Bhat ha scritto: When trying to run multiple dd ta

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-29 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 29 mag 2019, alle ore 03:09, Srivatsa S. Bhat > ha scritto: > > On 5/23/19 11:51 PM, Paolo Valente wrote: >> >>> Il giorno 24 mag 2019, alle ore 01:43, Srivatsa S. Bhat >>> ha scritto: >>> >>> When trying to run multiple dd tasks simultaneously, I get the kernel >>> panic shown

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-28 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 5/23/19 11:51 PM, Paolo Valente wrote: > >> Il giorno 24 mag 2019, alle ore 01:43, Srivatsa S. Bhat >> ha scritto: >> >> When trying to run multiple dd tasks simultaneously, I get the kernel >> panic shown below (mainline is fine, without these patches). >> > > Could you please provide me so

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-24 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 24 mag 2019, alle ore 08:51, Paolo Valente > ha scritto: > > > >> Il giorno 24 mag 2019, alle ore 01:43, Srivatsa S. Bhat >> ha scritto: >> >> On 5/23/19 10:22 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >>> Il giorno 23 mag 2019, alle ore 11:19, Paolo Valente ha scritto:

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-23 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 24 mag 2019, alle ore 01:43, Srivatsa S. Bhat > ha scritto: > > On 5/23/19 10:22 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >> >>> Il giorno 23 mag 2019, alle ore 11:19, Paolo Valente >>> ha scritto: >>> Il giorno 23 mag 2019, alle ore 04:30, Srivatsa S. Bhat ha scritto: > [...

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-23 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 5/23/19 10:22 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > >> Il giorno 23 mag 2019, alle ore 11:19, Paolo Valente >> ha scritto: >> >>> Il giorno 23 mag 2019, alle ore 04:30, Srivatsa S. Bhat >>> ha scritto: >>> [...] >>> Also, I'm very happy to run additional tests or experiments to help >>> track down thi

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-23 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 5/22/19 7:30 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > On 5/22/19 3:54 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >> >> >>> Il giorno 22 mag 2019, alle ore 12:01, Srivatsa S. Bhat >>> ha scritto: >>> >>> On 5/22/19 2:09 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: First, thank you very much for testing my patches, and, above all, fo

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-23 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 23 mag 2019, alle ore 11:19, Paolo Valente > ha scritto: > > > >> Il giorno 23 mag 2019, alle ore 04:30, Srivatsa S. Bhat >> ha scritto: >> >> On 5/22/19 3:54 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >>> >>> Il giorno 22 mag 2019, alle ore 12:01, Srivatsa S. Bhat ha scritto: >>>

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-23 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 23 mag 2019, alle ore 04:30, Srivatsa S. Bhat > ha scritto: > > On 5/22/19 3:54 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >> >> >>> Il giorno 22 mag 2019, alle ore 12:01, Srivatsa S. Bhat >>> ha scritto: >>> >>> On 5/22/19 2:09 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: First, thank you very much for

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-22 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 5/22/19 3:54 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > > >> Il giorno 22 mag 2019, alle ore 12:01, Srivatsa S. Bhat >> ha scritto: >> >> On 5/22/19 2:09 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >>> >>> First, thank you very much for testing my patches, and, above all, for >>> sharing those huge traces! >>> >>> According t

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-22 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 22 mag 2019, alle ore 12:01, Srivatsa S. Bhat > ha scritto: > > On 5/22/19 2:09 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >> >> First, thank you very much for testing my patches, and, above all, for >> sharing those huge traces! >> >> According to the your traces, the residual 20% lower throughpu

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-22 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 5/22/19 2:12 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > >> Il giorno 22 mag 2019, alle ore 11:02, Srivatsa S. Bhat >> ha scritto: >> >> >> Let's continue here on LKML itself. > > Just done :) > >> The only reason I created the >> bugzilla entry is to attach the tarball of the traces, assuming >> that it wo

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-22 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 5/22/19 2:09 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > > First, thank you very much for testing my patches, and, above all, for > sharing those huge traces! > > According to the your traces, the residual 20% lower throughput that you > record is due to the fact that the BFQ injection mechanism takes a few >

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-22 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 22 mag 2019, alle ore 11:02, Srivatsa S. Bhat > ha scritto: > > On 5/22/19 1:05 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >> >> >>> Il giorno 22 mag 2019, alle ore 00:51, Srivatsa S. Bhat >>> ha scritto: >>> >>> [ Resending this mail with a dropbox link to the traces (instead >>> of a file att

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-22 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 22 mag 2019, alle ore 10:05, Paolo Valente > ha scritto: > > > >> Il giorno 22 mag 2019, alle ore 00:51, Srivatsa S. Bhat >> ha scritto: >> >> [ Resending this mail with a dropbox link to the traces (instead >> of a file attachment), since it didn't go through the last time. ]

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-22 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 5/22/19 1:05 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > > >> Il giorno 22 mag 2019, alle ore 00:51, Srivatsa S. Bhat >> ha scritto: >> >> [ Resending this mail with a dropbox link to the traces (instead >> of a file attachment), since it didn't go through the last time. ] >> >> On 5/21/19 10:38 AM, Paolo Va

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-22 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 22 mag 2019, alle ore 00:51, Srivatsa S. Bhat > ha scritto: > > [ Resending this mail with a dropbox link to the traces (instead > of a file attachment), since it didn't go through the last time. ] > > On 5/21/19 10:38 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >> >>> So, instead of only sending m

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-21 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
[ Resending this mail with a dropbox link to the traces (instead of a file attachment), since it didn't go through the last time. ] On 5/21/19 10:38 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > >> So, instead of only sending me a trace, could you please: >> 1) apply this new patch on top of the one I attached in m

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-21 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 02:19:53PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: > Chris is adding a REQ_ROOT (or something) flag that means don't throttle me > now, > but the the blkcg attached to the bio is the one that is responsible for this > IO. Then for io.latency we'll let the io go through unmolested but it

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-21 Thread Josef Bacik
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:48:14PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:15:58AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > But this makes priority-inversion problems with ext4 journal worse, doesn't > > it? If we submit journal commit in blkio cgroup of some random process, it > > may get throt

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-21 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 21 mag 2019, alle ore 18:21, Paolo Valente > ha scritto: > > > >> Il giorno 21 mag 2019, alle ore 15:20, Paolo Valente >> ha scritto: >> >> >> >>> Il giorno 21 mag 2019, alle ore 13:25, Paolo Valente >>> ha scritto: >>> >>> >>> Il giorno 20 mag 2019, alle ore 12:19

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-21 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:15:58AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > But this makes priority-inversion problems with ext4 journal worse, doesn't > it? If we submit journal commit in blkio cgroup of some random process, it > may get throttled which then effectively blocks the whole filesystem. Or do > you wa

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-21 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 11:10:26AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > [root@localhost tmp]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/test.img bs=512 count=1 > > oflag=dsync > > Yes and that's expected. It just shows how inefficient small synchronous IO > is. Look, dd(1) writes 512-bytes. From FS point of view we hav

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-21 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 21 mag 2019, alle ore 15:20, Paolo Valente > ha scritto: > > > >> Il giorno 21 mag 2019, alle ore 13:25, Paolo Valente >> ha scritto: >> >> >> >>> Il giorno 20 mag 2019, alle ore 12:19, Paolo Valente >>> ha scritto: >>> >>> >>> Il giorno 18 mag 2019, alle ore 22:50

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-21 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 21 mag 2019, alle ore 13:25, Paolo Valente > ha scritto: > > > >> Il giorno 20 mag 2019, alle ore 12:19, Paolo Valente >> ha scritto: >> >> >> >>> Il giorno 18 mag 2019, alle ore 22:50, Srivatsa S. Bhat >>> ha scritto: >>> >>> On 5/18/19 11:39 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >>>

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-21 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 20 mag 2019, alle ore 12:19, Paolo Valente > ha scritto: > > > >> Il giorno 18 mag 2019, alle ore 22:50, Srivatsa S. Bhat >> ha scritto: >> >> On 5/18/19 11:39 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >>> I've addressed these issues in my last batch of improvements for BFQ, >>> which landed i

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-21 Thread Jan Kara
On Tue 21-05-19 08:23:05, Paolo Valente wrote: > > Il giorno 21 mag 2019, alle ore 00:45, Srivatsa S. Bhat > > ha scritto: > > > > On 5/20/19 3:19 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Il giorno 18 mag 2019, alle ore 22:50, Srivatsa S. Bhat > >>> ha scritto: > >>> > >>> On 5/18/19 11:39

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-21 Thread Andrea Righi
On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 12:38:32PM +0200, Paolo Valente wrote: ... > > I was considering adding support so that if userspace calls fsync(2) > > or fdatasync(2), to attach the process's CSS to the transaction, and > > then charge all of the journal metadata writes the process's CSS. If > > there ar

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-21 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 5/20/19 11:23 PM, Paolo Valente wrote: > > >> Il giorno 21 mag 2019, alle ore 00:45, Srivatsa S. Bhat >> ha scritto: >> >> On 5/20/19 3:19 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >>> >>> Il giorno 18 mag 2019, alle ore 22:50, Srivatsa S. Bhat ha scritto: On 5/18/19 11:39 AM, Paolo Val

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-20 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 21 mag 2019, alle ore 00:45, Srivatsa S. Bhat > ha scritto: > > On 5/20/19 3:19 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >> >> >>> Il giorno 18 mag 2019, alle ore 22:50, Srivatsa S. Bhat >>> ha scritto: >>> >>> On 5/18/19 11:39 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: I've addressed these issues in my l

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-20 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 5/20/19 3:19 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > > >> Il giorno 18 mag 2019, alle ore 22:50, Srivatsa S. Bhat >> ha scritto: >> >> On 5/18/19 11:39 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >>> I've addressed these issues in my last batch of improvements for BFQ, >>> which landed in the upcoming 5.2. If you give it a

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-20 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 20 mag 2019, alle ore 11:15, Jan Kara ha scritto: > > On Sat 18-05-19 15:28:47, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 08:39:54PM +0200, Paolo Valente wrote: >>> I've addressed these issues in my last batch of improvements for >>> BFQ, which landed in the upcoming 5.2. If y

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-20 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 18 mag 2019, alle ore 21:28, Theodore Ts'o ha > scritto: > > On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 08:39:54PM +0200, Paolo Valente wrote: >> I've addressed these issues in my last batch of improvements for >> BFQ, which landed in the upcoming 5.2. If you give it a try, and >> still see the probl

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-20 Thread Paolo Valente
> Il giorno 18 mag 2019, alle ore 22:50, Srivatsa S. Bhat > ha scritto: > > On 5/18/19 11:39 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >> I've addressed these issues in my last batch of improvements for BFQ, >> which landed in the upcoming 5.2. If you give it a try, and still see >> the problem, then I'll be g

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-20 Thread Jan Kara
On Sat 18-05-19 15:28:47, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 08:39:54PM +0200, Paolo Valente wrote: > > I've addressed these issues in my last batch of improvements for > > BFQ, which landed in the upcoming 5.2. If you give it a try, and > > still see the problem, then I'll be glad to r

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-18 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 5/18/19 11:39 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > I've addressed these issues in my last batch of improvements for BFQ, > which landed in the upcoming 5.2. If you give it a try, and still see > the problem, then I'll be glad to reproduce it, and hopefully fix it > for you. > Hi Paolo, Thank you for loo

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-18 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 08:39:54PM +0200, Paolo Valente wrote: > I've addressed these issues in my last batch of improvements for > BFQ, which landed in the upcoming 5.2. If you give it a try, and > still see the problem, then I'll be glad to reproduce it, and > hopefully fix it for you. Hi Paolo,

Re: CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-18 Thread Paolo Valente
I've addressed these issues in my last batch of improvements for BFQ, which landed in the upcoming 5.2. If you give it a try, and still see the problem, then I'll be glad to reproduce it, and hopefully fix it for you. Thanks, Paolo > Il giorno 18 mag 2019, alle ore 00:16, Srivatsa S. Bhat > h

CFQ idling kills I/O performance on ext4 with blkio cgroup controller

2019-05-17 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
Hi, One of my colleagues noticed upto 10x - 30x drop in I/O throughput running the following command, with the CFQ I/O scheduler: dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/test.img bs=512 count=1 oflags=dsync Throughput with CFQ: 60 KB/s Throughput with noop or deadline: 1.5 MB/s - 2 MB/s I spent some tim