Regression for mmap writes through FUSE in 4.2+

2016-01-22 Thread Jakob Unterwurzacher
I have noticed an annoying regression that was introduced in 4.2 and is
still there in 4.4. mmap writes to FUSE filesystems are throttled down
to basically zero.

Reproducer: https://github.com/rfjakob/mmapwrite , testing against encfs:

$ mmapwrite /tmp/encfs-mnt/foo
  1 .. 107.01 MB/s
  2 .. 101.98 MB/s
[...]
 68 .. 106.79 MB/s
 69 .. 105.09 MB/s
 70 ..   2.02 MB/s
 71 ..   1.77 MB/s
 72 ..   0.42 MB/s
 73  (hangs)

I have tested kernels from 4.0 and this seems to have been introduced in
4.2:

4.0 ... 140MB/s permanent
4.1 ... 140MB/s permanent
4.2 ... 100MB/s at the start, sudden slowdown to 1MB/s after ~5GB
4.3 ... 100MB/s at the start, sudden slowdown to 1MB/s after ~1.5GB
4.4-rc4 ... 100MB/s at the start, slowly ramps down, 0.3MB/s after ~2GB
4.4 ... 100MB/s at the start, sudden slowdown after ~3GB

Is there a way to disable the throttling? Or at least exempt FUSE until
there is a proper fix?

Thanks,
Jakob


Regression for mmap writes through FUSE in 4.2+

2016-01-22 Thread Jakob Unterwurzacher
I have noticed an annoying regression that was introduced in 4.2 and is
still there in 4.4. mmap writes to FUSE filesystems are throttled down
to basically zero.

Reproducer: https://github.com/rfjakob/mmapwrite , testing against encfs:

$ mmapwrite /tmp/encfs-mnt/foo
  1 .. 107.01 MB/s
  2 .. 101.98 MB/s
[...]
 68 .. 106.79 MB/s
 69 .. 105.09 MB/s
 70 ..   2.02 MB/s
 71 ..   1.77 MB/s
 72 ..   0.42 MB/s
 73  (hangs)

I have tested kernels from 4.0 and this seems to have been introduced in
4.2:

4.0 ... 140MB/s permanent
4.1 ... 140MB/s permanent
4.2 ... 100MB/s at the start, sudden slowdown to 1MB/s after ~5GB
4.3 ... 100MB/s at the start, sudden slowdown to 1MB/s after ~1.5GB
4.4-rc4 ... 100MB/s at the start, slowly ramps down, 0.3MB/s after ~2GB
4.4 ... 100MB/s at the start, sudden slowdown after ~3GB

Is there a way to disable the throttling? Or at least exempt FUSE until
there is a proper fix?

Thanks,
Jakob