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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, 28 Apr 2023 01:21:35 +0000 (11:21 +1000)
commit179e4117cfaf1e48a351d6f452c0149e277f52ce
treea2fde44c29607dc8aa1905ddc2e03082225283ae
parentd97ab206f3b8f624d1b6903f5d18d52c8c701a2c
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