> -----Original Message----- > From: Laurence Oberman [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, March 3, 2018 3:23 AM > To: Don Brace; Ming Lei > Cc: Jens Axboe; [email protected]; Christoph Hellwig; Mike > Snitzer; > [email protected]; Hannes Reinecke; Arun Easi; Omar Sandoval; > Martin K . Petersen; James Bottomley; Christoph Hellwig; Kashyap Desai; > Peter > Rivera; Meelis Roos > Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/8] scsi: hpsa: fix selection of reply queue > > On Fri, 2018-03-02 at 15:03 +0000, Don Brace wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Laurence Oberman [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Friday, March 02, 2018 8:09 AM > > > To: Ming Lei <[email protected]> > > > Cc: Don Brace <[email protected]>; Jens Axboe <[email protected] > > > k>; > > > [email protected]; Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>; > > > Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>; [email protected]; > > > Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>; Arun Easi <[email protected]>; > > > Omar Sandoval <[email protected]>; Martin K . Petersen > > > <[email protected]>; James Bottomley > > > <[email protected]>; Christoph Hellwig > > > <[email protected]>; Kashyap Desai <[email protected]>; Peter > > > Rivera <[email protected]>; Meelis Roos <[email protected]> > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/8] scsi: hpsa: fix selection of reply queue > > > > > > EXTERNAL EMAIL > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 2018-03-02 at 10:16 +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 04:19:34PM -0500, Laurence Oberman wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2018-03-01 at 14:01 -0500, Laurence Oberman wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 2018-03-01 at 16:18 +0000, Don Brace wrote: > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > > > From: Ming Lei [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 4:08 AM > > > > > > > > To: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>; [email protected] > > > > > > > > .org ; Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>; Mike Snitzer > > > > > > > > <snitzer@redhat .com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Cc: [email protected]; Hannes Reinecke <hare@sus > > > > > > > > e.de > > > > > > > > > ; > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Arun Easi > > > > > > > > <[email protected]>; Omar Sandoval <[email protected]>; > > > > > > > > Martin K . > > > > > > > > Petersen <[email protected]>; James Bottomley > > > > > > > > <[email protected]>; Christoph Hellwig > > > > > > > > <h ch@l st .de>; Don Brace <[email protected]>; > > > > > > > > Kashyap Desai <[email protected]>; Peter Rivera > > > > > > > > <peter.rivera@ broa dcom .c > > > > > > > > om>; > > > > > > > > Laurence Oberman <[email protected]>; Ming Lei > > > > > > > > <[email protected]>; Meelis Roos <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > Subject: [PATCH V3 1/8] scsi: hpsa: fix selection of reply > > > > > > > > queue > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Seems Don run into IO failure without blk-mq, could you run your > > > > tests again in legacy mode? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ming > > > > > > Hello Ming > > > I ran multiple passes on Legacy and still see no issues in my test > > > bed > > > > > > BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.16.0-rc2.ming+ root=UUID=43f86d71-b1bf-4789- > > > a28e- > > > 21c6ddc90195 ro crashkernel=256M@64M log_buf_len=64M > > > console=ttyS1,115200n8 > > > > > > HEAD of the git kernel I am using > > > > > > 694e16f scsi: megaraid: improve scsi_mq performance via .host_tagset > > > 793686c scsi: hpsa: improve scsi_mq performance via .host_tagset > > > 60d5b36 block: null_blk: introduce module parameter of 'g_host_tags' > > > 8847067 scsi: Add template flag 'host_tagset' > > > a8fbdd6 blk-mq: introduce BLK_MQ_F_HOST_TAGS 4710fab blk-mq: > > > introduce 'start_tag' field to 'struct blk_mq_tags' > > > 09bb153 scsi: megaraid_sas: fix selection of reply queue > > > 52700d8 scsi: hpsa: fix selection of reply queue > > > > I checkout out Linus's tree (4.16.0-rc3+) and re-applied the above > > patches. > > I and have been running 24 hours with no issues. > > Evidently my forked copy was corrupted. > > > > So, my I/O testing has gone well. > > > > I'll run some performance numbers next. > > > > Thanks, > > Don > > Unless Kashyap is not happy we need to consider getting this in to Linus > now > because we are seeing HPE servers that keep hanging now with the original > commit now upstream. > > Kashyap, are you good with the v3 patchset or still concerned with > performance. I was getting pretty good IOPS/sec to individual SSD drives > set > up as jbod devices on the megaraid_sas.
Laurence - Did you find difference with/without the patch ? What was IOPs number with and without patch. It is not urgent feature, so I would like to take some time to get BRCM's performance team involved and do full analysis of performance run and find pros/cons. Kashyap > > With larger I/O sizes like 1MB I was getting good MB/sec and not seeing a > measurable performance impact. > > I dont have the hardware you have to mimic your configuration. > > Thanks > Laurence
