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Mikulas Patocka authored
When dm-writecache is used with SSD as a cache device, it would submit a separate bio for each written block. The I/Os would be merged by the disk scheduler, but this merging degrades performance. Improve dm-writecache performance by submitting larger bios - this is possible as long as there is consecutive free space on the cache device. Benchmark (arm64 with 64k page size, using /dev/ram0 as a cache device): fio --bs=512k --iodepth=32 --size=400M --direct=1 \ --filename=/dev/mapper/cache --rw=randwrite --numjobs=1 --name=test block old new size MiB/s MiB/s --------------------- 512 181 700 1k 347 1256 2k 644 2020 4k 1183 2759 8k 1852 3333 16k 2469 3509 32k 2974 3670 64k 3404 3810 Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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