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Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: by default, limit maximum discard size to 64MB

Started byMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
First post2015-07-14 22:50 +0200
Last post2015-07-15 13:50 +0200
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  Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: by default, limit maximum discard size to 64MB Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> - 2015-07-14 22:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: by default, limit maximum discard size to  64MB Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2015-07-14 22:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: by default, limit maximum discard size to  64MB Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2015-07-15 13:50 +0200

#1183990 — Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: by default, limit maximum discard size to 64MB

FromMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Date2015-07-14 22:50 +0200
SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] block: by default, limit maximum discard size to 64MB
Message-ID<pMfjj-2VX-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
On Tue, Jul 14 2015 at  2:48pm -0400,
Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> wrote:

> Lots of devices exhibit very high latencies for big discards, hurting
> reads and writes. By default, limit the max discard we will build to
> 64MB. This value has shown good results across a number of devices.
> 
> This will potentially hurt discard throughput, from a provisioning
> point of view (when the user does mkfs.xfs, for instance, and mkfs
> issues a full device discard). If that becomes an issue, we could
> have different behavior for provisioning vs runtime discards.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

Christoph suggested you impose this default for the specific
drivers/devices that benefit.  I'm not following why imposing a 64MB
default is the right thing to do for all devices.

If this goes in I know for sure I'll need to work around it in DM-thinp.
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#1183993 — Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: by default, limit maximum discard size to 64MB

FromJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Date2015-07-14 22:50 +0200
SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] block: by default, limit maximum discard size to 64MB
Message-ID<pMfjk-2VX-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#1183990
On 07/14/2015 02:44 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14 2015 at  2:48pm -0400,
> Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> wrote:
>
>> Lots of devices exhibit very high latencies for big discards, hurting
>> reads and writes. By default, limit the max discard we will build to
>> 64MB. This value has shown good results across a number of devices.
>>
>> This will potentially hurt discard throughput, from a provisioning
>> point of view (when the user does mkfs.xfs, for instance, and mkfs
>> issues a full device discard). If that becomes an issue, we could
>> have different behavior for provisioning vs runtime discards.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
>
> Christoph suggested you impose this default for the specific
> drivers/devices that benefit.  I'm not following why imposing a 64MB
> default is the right thing to do for all devices.

I'd argue that's most of them... But the testing we did was on NVMe. I 
can limit it to NVMe, no big deal.

> If this goes in I know for sure I'll need to work around it in DM-thinp.

In any case, that's a good point, dm/md should not have their own lower 
restrictions.

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#1184712 — Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: by default, limit maximum discard size to 64MB

FromAustin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
Date2015-07-15 13:50 +0200
SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] block: by default, limit maximum discard size to 64MB
Message-ID<pMtmi-6p4-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
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On 2015-07-14 17:48, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 07/14/2015 02:45 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 07/14/2015 02:44 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 14 2015 at  2:48pm -0400,
>>> Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Lots of devices exhibit very high latencies for big discards, hurting
>>>> reads and writes. By default, limit the max discard we will build to
>>>> 64MB. This value has shown good results across a number of devices.
>>>>
>>>> This will potentially hurt discard throughput, from a provisioning
>>>> point of view (when the user does mkfs.xfs, for instance, and mkfs
>>>> issues a full device discard). If that becomes an issue, we could
>>>> have different behavior for provisioning vs runtime discards.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
>>>
>>> Christoph suggested you impose this default for the specific
>>> drivers/devices that benefit.  I'm not following why imposing a 64MB
>>> default is the right thing to do for all devices.
>>
>> I'd argue that's most of them... But the testing we did was on NVMe. I
>> can limit it to NVMe, no big deal.
>
> Oh, and LSI flash too, so not just NVMe.
>
While I don't have time to test it, I have a feeling that such a limit 
would help with many of the consumer SSD's out there.  Secondarily, once 
this gets in and discard is fixed for BTRFS, I'll have some performance 
testing to do WRT dm-thinp.

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