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LU-12158 mke2fs: avoid too large stride and stripe_width
authorWang Shilong <wshilong@ddn.com>
Tue, 21 May 2019 04:06:39 +0000 (12:06 +0800)
committerLi Dongyang <dongyangli@ddn.com>
Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:23:15 +0000 (13:23 +1100)
commit3e2df79412dc4a80b08e69661ec366feeee35b80
treeed0134bdd897d40d16754aaddb7a4a1c0bcf9528
parent74a4a9cf246982ab1c136e631fe73f6972317c9c
LU-12158 mke2fs: avoid too large stride and stripe_width

According to benchmarks numbers, too large stripe and stripe_width
will make preassure with ext4 mballoc allocater and hurts performances
finally.
                    2MB Chunk size                 256K Chunk size
stripe_width,stride     Write(MB/s)    Read(MB/s)   Write(MB/s) Read(MB/s)
512,512                 10,810         10,124       10,492      6,923
1024,1024               10,793         10,064       10,431      6,921
2048,2048               8,047          10,080       6,629       7,381
4096,4096               7,350          10,089       6,505       7,282

Performance number comes from Shuichi Ihara.

This patch try to avoid use too large stride and stripe_width when mkfs.
If users really want large value they could do it by specify mkfs options
or run tune2fs later.

Change-Id: I768f1ecb39837338e08842b21b4fca8b98165d2a
Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong <wshilong@ddn.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.whamcloud.com/34767
Tested-by: Jenkins
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Tested-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
misc/mke2fs.c
tests/filter.sed