Neil Brown wrote:
I wonder if we should avoid bypassing the stripe cache if the needed stripes
are already in the cache... or if at least one needed stripe is.... or
if the array is degraded...
Probably in the degraded case we should never bypass the cache, as if
we do, then a sequential read of a full stripe will read every block
twice. I'd better to some performance measurements.
Ok, that would explain some odd performance issues I've noticed.
Let's say I run
dstat -D sda,sdb,sdc,sdd,md0 5
----total-cpu-usage---- --disk/sda----disk/sdb----disk/sdc----disk/sdd----disk/md0- -net/total-
---paging-- ---system--
usr sys idl wai hiq siq|_read write _read write _read write _read write _read write|_recv
_send|__in_ _out_|_int_ _csw_
25 22 0 47 0 6|20.1M 0 :20.2M 0 :20.1M 0 : 0 0 :40.2M 0 | 146B 662B|
0 0 |1186 661
26 20 0 46 0 8|19.4M 0 :19.4M 0 :19.4M 0 : 0 0 :38.9M 0 | 160B 549B|
0 0 |1365 650
Given I'm doing a read, I would have expected a read to consist of 2 direct reads, one parity read
and some calculation. The numbers I'm seeing however show 3 reads for 2 reads worth of bandwidth.
root@storage2:~# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid5 sda[0] sdc[2] sdb[1]
585934080 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3] [UUU_]
(Dropped Jens and Chuck from the cc as this likely has little interest for them)
Brad
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