freebsd-nq/module
Brian Behlendorf 556011dbec Improve N-way mirror performance
The read bandwidth of an N-way mirror can by increased by 50%,
and the IOPs by 10%, by more carefully selecting the preferred
leaf vdev.

The existing algorthm selects a perferred leaf vdev based on
offset of the zio request modulo the number of members in the
mirror.  It assumes the drives are of equal performance and
that spreading the requests randomly over both drives will be
sufficient to saturate them.  In practice this results in the
leaf vdevs being under utilized.

Utilization can be improved by preferentially selecting the leaf
vdev with the least pending IO.  This prevents leaf vdevs from
being starved and compensates for performance differences between
disks in the mirror.  Faster vdevs will be sent more work and
the mirror performance will not be limitted by the slowest drive.

In the common case where all the pending queues are full and there
is no single least busy leaf vdev a batching stratagy is employed.
Of the N least busy vdevs one is selected with equal probability
to be the preferred vdev for T microseconds.  Compared to randomly
selecting a vdev to break the tie batching the requests greatly
improves the odds of merging the requests in the Linux elevator.

The testing results show a significant performance improvement
for all four workloads tested.  The workloads were generated
using the fio benchmark and are as follows.

1) 1MB sequential reads from 16 threads to 16 files (MB/s).
2) 4KB sequential reads from 16 threads to 16 files (MB/s).
3) 1MB random reads from 16 threads to 16 files (IOP/s).
4) 4KB random reads from 16 threads to 16 files (IOP/s).

               | Pristine              |  With 1461             |
               | Sequential  Random    |  Sequential  Random    |
               | 1MB  4KB    1MB  4KB  |  1MB  4KB    1MB  4KB  |
               | MB/s MB/s   IO/s IO/s |  MB/s MB/s   IO/s IO/s |
---------------+-----------------------+------------------------+
2 Striped      | 226  243     11  304  |  222  255     11  299  |
2 2-Way Mirror | 302  324     16  534  |  433  448     23  571  |
2 3-Way Mirror | 429  458     24  714  |  648  648     41  808  |
2 4-Way Mirror | 562  601     36  849  |  816  828     82  926  |

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1461
2013-07-11 13:53:50 -07:00
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avl Add script for builtin module building. 2012-07-26 13:45:09 -07:00
nvpair Register correct handlers in nvlist_alloc() 2013-06-20 09:58:15 -07:00
unicode Add script for builtin module building. 2012-07-26 13:45:09 -07:00
zcommon Add snapdev=[hidden|visible] dataset property 2013-03-05 12:37:54 -08:00
zfs Improve N-way mirror performance 2013-07-11 13:53:50 -07:00
zpios Refresh links to web site 2013-03-06 15:46:41 -08:00
.gitignore gitignore: anchor entries at their respective directory 2013-04-02 10:50:17 -07:00
Makefile.in Add KMODDIR to install target 2013-03-06 15:46:40 -08:00