Hi,

Have you aligned your partitions on the SSD to at-least 4 KiB
block-size, even better with 1 MiB?

Best regards,
Robert

2013/5/16 Patrick Ng <[email protected]>:
> Hi all,
>
> I have installed Linux kernel 3.9.2 in my Fedora 18.  When I ran FIO in 
> bcache write-through mode, the performance was good, but running a similar 
> test in bcache write-back mode, I got very poor performance.
> Did I miss any options when setting the write-back mode?
>
> Environment
> ===========
> 500G backing store at /dev/sdb1
> 150G SSD at /dev/sdc1
>
> Write-through mode
> ==================
> make-bcache -B /dev/sdb1 -C /dev/sdc1
> echo /dev/sdb1 > /sys/fs/bcache/register
> echo /dev/sdc1 > /sys/fs/bcache/register
> mkfs.ext4 /dev/bcache0
> mount /dev/bcache0 /mnt/bcache
>
>
> Running FIO with random, 100% read, iosize=4096, queue depth=16
> the result is approx. 65k IOPS
>
>
> Write-backe mode (setup is almost the same as write-through except the extra 
> step at the end "echo writeback ...")
> ================
> make-bcache -B /dev/sdb1 -C /dev/sdc1
> echo /dev/sdb1 > /sys/fs/bcache/register
> echo /dev/sdc1 > /sys/fs/bcache/register
> mkfs.ext4 /dev/bcache0
> mount /dev/bcache0 /mnt/bcache
> echo writeback > /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/cache_mode
>
> Running FIO with random, 100% read, iosize=4096, queue depth=16
> the result is approx. 12k IOPS
>
> Running FIO with random, 80% read 20% write, iosize=4096, queue depth=16
> the result is approx. 2k IOPS
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
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