md: Use optimal I/O size for last bitmap page
authorJon Derrick <jonathan.derrick@linux.dev>
Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:33:23 +0000 (11:33 -0700)
committerSong Liu <song@kernel.org>
Fri, 14 Apr 2023 05:20:24 +0000 (22:20 -0700)
commit8745faa95611f6331331284925012c0310ae3e2c
tree5b7b8297da17ce7643f3b30a697d6337738acff5
parent10172f200b67aafcb9b8ce7d0575d713c1aafbb7
md: Use optimal I/O size for last bitmap page

If the bitmap space has enough room, size the I/O for the last bitmap
page write to the optimal I/O size for the storage device. The expanded
write is checked that it won't overrun the data or metadata.

The drive this was tested against has higher latencies when there are
sub-4k writes due to device-side read-mod-writes of its atomic 4k write
unit. This change helps increase performance by sizing the last bitmap
page I/O for the device's preferred write unit, if it is given.

Example Intel/Solidigm P5520
Raid10, Chunk-size 64M, bitmap-size 57228 bits

$ mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=10 --raid-devices=4 /dev/nvme{0,1,2,3}n1
        --assume-clean --bitmap=internal --bitmap-chunk=64M
$ fio --name=test --direct=1 --filename=/dev/md0 --rw=randwrite --bs=4k --runtime=60

Without patch:
  write: IOPS=1676, BW=6708KiB/s (6869kB/s)(393MiB/60001msec); 0 zone resets

With patch:
  write: IOPS=15.7k, BW=61.4MiB/s (64.4MB/s)(3683MiB/60001msec); 0 zone resets

Biosnoop:
Without patch:
Time        Process        PID     Device      LBA        Size      Lat
1.410377    md0_raid10     6900    nvme0n1   W 16         4096      0.02
1.410387    md0_raid10     6900    nvme2n1   W 16         4096      0.02
1.410374    md0_raid10     6900    nvme3n1   W 16         4096      0.01
1.410381    md0_raid10     6900    nvme1n1   W 16         4096      0.02
1.410411    md0_raid10     6900    nvme1n1   W 115346512  4096      0.01
1.410418    md0_raid10     6900    nvme0n1   W 115346512  4096      0.02
1.410915    md0_raid10     6900    nvme2n1   W 24         3584      0.43 <--
1.410935    md0_raid10     6900    nvme3n1   W 24         3584      0.45 <--
1.411124    md0_raid10     6900    nvme1n1   W 24         3584      0.64 <--
1.411147    md0_raid10     6900    nvme0n1   W 24         3584      0.66 <--
1.411176    md0_raid10     6900    nvme3n1   W 2019022184 4096      0.01
1.411189    md0_raid10     6900    nvme2n1   W 2019022184 4096      0.02

With patch:
Time        Process        PID     Device      LBA        Size      Lat
5.747193    md0_raid10     727     nvme0n1   W 16         4096      0.01
5.747192    md0_raid10     727     nvme1n1   W 16         4096      0.02
5.747195    md0_raid10     727     nvme3n1   W 16         4096      0.01
5.747202    md0_raid10     727     nvme2n1   W 16         4096      0.02
5.747229    md0_raid10     727     nvme3n1   W 1196223704 4096      0.02
5.747224    md0_raid10     727     nvme0n1   W 1196223704 4096      0.01
5.747279    md0_raid10     727     nvme0n1   W 24         4096      0.01 <--
5.747279    md0_raid10     727     nvme1n1   W 24         4096      0.02 <--
5.747284    md0_raid10     727     nvme3n1   W 24         4096      0.02 <--
5.747291    md0_raid10     727     nvme2n1   W 24         4096      0.02 <--
5.747314    md0_raid10     727     nvme2n1   W 2234636712 4096      0.01
5.747317    md0_raid10     727     nvme1n1   W 2234636712 4096      0.02

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jon Derrick <jonathan.derrick@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230224183323.638-4-jonathan.derrick@linux.dev
drivers/md/md-bitmap.c