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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)
committerAndreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:16:07 +0000 (18:16 -0600)
commit46a6a39c40947500b3c78044ca5cef055c4a261b
tree40513567ab6b43dfd2f49064814eb72390a1bf35
parent8ac1c0efde6909ae359d2672e8471c1fae6b774f
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