[dm-devel] [PATCH v2] staging: writeboost: Add dm-writeboost
Bart Van Assche
bvanassche at acm.org
Fri Dec 12 09:12:18 UTC 2014
On 12/12/14 01:42, Akira Hayakawa wrote:
> 1. Writeboost shouldn't split the bio into 4KB chunks.
> No. It is necessary.
> I know WALB (https://github.com/starpos/walb) logs data without
> splitting but the data structure becomes complicated.
> If you read my code carefully, you will notice that splitting
> helps the design simplicity and performance.
This is the first time I see someone claiming that reducing the request
size improves performance. I don't know any SSD model for which
splitting requests improves performance.
Additionally, since bio's are split by dm-writeboost, this makes me
wonder how atomic writes will ever be supported ? Atomic writes are
being standardized by the T10 SCSI committee. I don't think the Linux
block layer already supports atomic writes today but I expect support
for atomic writes to be added to the block layer sooner or later. See
e.g. http://www.t10.org/doc13.htm / SBC-4 SPC-5 Atomic writes and reads
for the latest draft specification.
Bart.
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