Re: performance "regression" in cfq compared to anticipatory, deadline and noop

[Matthew <jackdachef@gmail.com>]

> Hi, I'm experiencing some cfq/bfq performance issues too, but I'm
> still not able to track down the reasons, so before posting on this
> topic on the mailing list I'd ask you a couple of questions.
>
> 1) Are you running the hdparm performance test under some cpu load?
>   (Even two hdparm instances ran in parallel could do.)
>
> 2) Does using a bigger value of slice_idle increase the throughput?
>

Hi,

1) no it was always in (almost) complete idle

2) a bigger value even made it worse, setting it to "0" however
seemingly "fixed" it, I however don't know how the overall
effect/impact is, this will need some more real-world testing ;)

cat /sys/block/sdd/queue/iosched/slice_idle
0

hdparm -t /dev/sdd

/dev/sdd:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  314 MB in  3.01 seconds = 104.32 MB/sec

hdparm -t /dev/sdd

/dev/sdd:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  312 MB in  3.00 seconds = 103.86 MB/sec

hdparm -t /dev/sdd

/dev/sdd:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  314 MB in  3.01 seconds = 104.24 MB/sec

one side-node / question:

will this cause more wakeups on the cpu and/or decrease battery
runtime on, e.g. laptops ?

> Thank you very much, I'll try hdparm on my test boxes and come back
> to the list if I find something on that.
>
> As a sidenote, Ingo is not the author/maintainer of cfq, maybe the
> next time CC: Jens Axboe for that.
>

oops, didn't know that, thanks - didn't want to give the wrong person
the "credits"
hi & kudos to Jens ;)

here's a nice site which explains all of the settings:

http://www.nextre.it/oracledocs/ioscheduler_03.html

Regards

Mat