Public bug reported:
SRU Justification: This patch has been accepted into the upstream 2.6.27.4
stable kernel.
It should be pulled into the Ubuntu kernel as well.
TEST CASE: TBD
commit c17e59af0d10fe9c5616109fab5ac879cad1cd61
Author: Kazuo Ito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu Oct 23 17:35:24 2008 +0000
dm kcopyd: avoid queue shuffle
commit b673c3a8192e28f13e2050a4b82c1986be92cc15 upstream
Write throughput to LVM snapshot origin volume is an order
of magnitude slower than those to LV without snapshots or
snapshot target volumes, especially in the case of sequential
writes with O_SYNC on.
The following patch originally written by Kevin Jamieson and
Jan Blunck and slightly modified for the current RCs by myself
tries to improve the performance by modifying the behaviour
of kcopyd, so that it pushes back an I/O job to the head of
the job queue instead of the tail as process_jobs() currently
does when it has to wait for free pages. This way, write
requests aren't shuffled to cause extra seeks.
I tested the patch against 2.6.27-rc5 and got the following results.
The test is a dd command writing to snapshot origin followed by fsync
to the file just created/updated. A couple of filesystem benchmarks
gave me similar results in case of sequential writes, while random
writes didn't suffer much.
dd if=/dev/zero of=<somewhere on snapshot origin> bs=4096 count=...
[conv=notrunc when updating]
1) linux 2.6.27-rc5 without the patch, write to snapshot origin,
average throughput (MB/s)
10M 100M 1000M
create,dd 511.46 610.72 11.81
create,dd+fsync 7.10 6.77 8.13
update,dd 431.63 917.41 12.75
update,dd+fsync 7.79 7.43 8.12
compared with write throughput to LV without any snapshots,
all dd+fsync and 1000 MiB writes perform very poorly.
10M 100M 1000M
create,dd 555.03 608.98 123.29
create,dd+fsync 114.27 72.78 76.65
update,dd 152.34 1267.27 124.04
update,dd+fsync 130.56 77.81 77.84
2) linux 2.6.27-rc5 with the patch, write to snapshot origin,
average throughput (MB/s)
10M 100M 1000M
create,dd 537.06 589.44 46.21
create,dd+fsync 31.63 29.19 29.23
update,dd 487.59 897.65 37.76
update,dd+fsync 34.12 30.07 26.85
Although still not on par with plain LV performance -
cannot be avoided because it's copy on write anyway -
this simple patch successfully improves throughtput
of dd+fsync while not affecting the rest.
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Kazuo Ito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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dm kcopyd: avoid queue shuffle
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294010
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