[LSF/MM ATTEND][LSF/MM TOPIC] Multipath redesign

Sagi Grimberg sagig at dev.mellanox.co.il
Wed Jan 13 08:30:35 PST 2016


>> Hmm. I turned on /sys/module/dm_mod/parameters/use_blk_mq and indeed
>> saw a significant performance improvement. Anything else I was missing?
>
> You can enable CONFIG_DM_MQ_DEFAULT so you don't need to manually set
> use_blk_mq.

I do, I started out with the manual option to test the improvements but
got tired of it very quickly :)

> OK, so you're only getting 1/3 of the throughput.  Time for us to hunt
> down the bottleneck (before real devices hit it).

I have some initial instrumentation analysis so I'll be happy if we can
work on that (probably can free this thread and move it to dm-devel).



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