On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 01:22:53PM +0300, Vladimir Fedorkov wrote:
Hello there!
I'm running benchmarks and it looks like that md device is only
utilizing single core which it limiting it's performance on concurrent
(4+ threads) writes with 8 SSD drives in software RAID10
Kernel: Linux host 4.10.12-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Apr 21
09:58:15 EDT 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Exact numbers are here: http://astellar.com/images/sysbench_rnd_writes.png
Could you please let me know if there is multi-threaded support on MD
devices in 4.x kernels and point me to the documentation (preferred)
or source code which describes tunable parts of /dev/mdXX devices.
There is no knob for tunning. At most time, raid10 directly sends IO to
underlayer disks directly from upperlayer thread, so it's multi-threaded. The
problem is we have some locking issues in the barrier side. Coly improved the
raid1 scalability with a new barrier implementation (fd76863e37fe RAID1: a new
I/O barrier implementation to remove resync window), but raid10 is left behind.
Thanks,
Shaohua
