Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] Improve Raid5 Lock Contention

[Guoqing Jiang]

On 4/22/22 12:02 AM, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> On 2022-04-21 02:45, Xiao Ni wrote:
> > Could you share the commands to get the test result (lock contention
> > and performance)?
> Sure. The performance we were focused on was large block writes. So we
> setup raid5 instances with varying number of disks and ran the following
> fio script directly on the drive.
>
> [simple]
> filename=/dev/md0
> ioengine=libaio
> rw=write
> direct=1
> size=8G
> blocksize=2m
> iodepth=16
> runtime=30s
> time_based=1
> offset_increment=8G
> numjobs=12
> 
> (We also played around with tuning this but didn't find substantial
> changes once the bottleneck was hit)

Nice, I suppose other IO patterns keep the same performance as before.

> We tuned md with parameters like:
>
> echo 4 > /sys/block/md0/md/group_thread_cnt
> echo 8192 > /sys/block/md0/md/stripe_cache_size
>
> For lock contention stats, we just used lockstat[1]; roughly like:
>
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/lock_stat
> fio test.fio
> echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/lock_stat
> cat /proc/lock_stat
>
> And compared the before and after.

Thanks for your effort, besides the performance test, please try to run
mdadm test suites to avoid regression.

Thanks,
Guoqing