[dm-devel] FIXED! [was: awful request merge results while simulating high IOPS] multipath

[Mike Snitzer]

New multipath results using these 2 additional DM patches:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=d379ecbac533d3ac45c7f155b1fc1b760abace6e
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=d379ecbac533d3ac45c7f155b1fc1b760abace6e

(the important one being the last patch, thanks to Jens for the suggestion!)

Both deadline and noop schedulers work really well this fio test now
(cfq is slightly slower):

[64_seq_write]
#filename=/dev/mapper/skd_mpath
filename=/dev/dm-7
rw=write
rwmixread=0
blocksize=4k
iodepth=16
direct=1
numjobs=64
runtime=100
ioengine=libaio
time_based

deadline:
---------
Run status group 0 (all jobs):
  WRITE: io=64402MB, aggrb=659426KB/s, minb=8960KB/s, maxb=10348KB/s, mint=100001msec, maxt=100007msec

Disk stats (read/write):
    dm-7: ios=78/951571, merge=0/14721874, ticks=1/6766375, in_queue=6868921, util=100.00%, aggrios=257/951897, aggrmerge=0/0, aggrticks=3/3467932, aggrin_queue=3467835, aggrutil=99.09%
  skd0: ios=257/951897, merge=0/0, ticks=3/3467932, in_queue=3467835, util=99.09%

(deadline is _really_ fast with this test now, noop is fast too, see below)

cfq:
----
rotational=0
------------
Run status group 0 (all jobs):
  WRITE: io=18719MB, aggrb=191652KB/s, minb=2639KB/s, maxb=4210KB/s, mint=100001msec, maxt=100018msec

Disk stats (read/write):
    dm-7: ios=91/368755, merge=0/4407385, ticks=2/6783504, in_queue=6815287, util=100.00%, aggrios=273/368851, aggrmerge=0/0, aggrticks=5/2962495, aggrin_queue=2962487, aggrutil=95.40%
  skd0: ios=273/368851, merge=0/0, ticks=5/2962495, in_queue=2962487, util=95.40%

rotational=1
------------
Run status group 0 (all jobs):
  WRITE: io=19660MB, aggrb=200940KB/s, minb=2304KB/s, maxb=6441KB/s, mint=100001msec, maxt=100188msec

Disk stats (read/write):
    dm-7: ios=91/786111, merge=0/4179472, ticks=2/5820606, in_queue=5834058, util=99.98%, aggrios=182/786507, aggrmerge=0/0, aggrticks=4/131800, aggrin_queue=131758, aggrutil=70.55%
  skd0: ios=182/786507, merge=0/0, ticks=4/131800, in_queue=131758, util=70.55%

noop:
-----
Run status group 0 (all jobs):
  WRITE: io=58264MB, aggrb=596517KB/s, minb=9301KB/s, maxb=9354KB/s, mint=100001msec, maxt=100018msec

Disk stats (read/write):
    dm-7: ios=116/998937, merge=0/13874486, ticks=4/6853397, in_queue=6934793, util=100.00%, aggrios=295/999061, aggrmerge=0/0, aggrticks=8/3776141, aggrin_queue=3776117, aggrutil=98.81%
  skd0: ios=295/999061, merge=0/0, ticks=8/3776141, in_queue=3776117, util=98.81%