[lvm-devel] [PATCH 1/6] Pool locking code
Zdenek Kabelac
zkabelac at redhat.com
Wed Mar 23 15:57:58 UTC 2011
Dne 23.3.2011 16:13, Joe Thornber napsal(a):
> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 15:54 +0100, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
>> Forget to answer the size question - >8MB is allocated by the VG
>> mempool when
>> set of simple linear 7200LVs on 1 PV are in use.
>
> So I think each snapshot/restore of a VG pool of that size is going to
> take ~0.1 seconds. So now my question is how many times are we
> expecting to happen during a typical tool invocation? Your previous
> reply suggested it happens just once?
If there would be just 1 vg read for 7200 activate call - obviously I'd not
need to play with this dm_pool locking :)
So there is 7200 vg reads - which will use this one locked pool with my patch set:
To give some time info here
(using my unoptimized gcc debug build on C2D 2.2GHz - but with few more
patches applied than current upstream)
Deactivate 7200LV (7200 already active)
real 1m16.140s
user 0m5.686s
sys 0m31.410s
Deactivate 7200LV (non active)
real 0m2.121s
user 0m1.083s
sys 0m1.032s
Activate 7200 (non active)
real 2m19.324s
user 0m6.503s
sys 1m30.785s
Activate 7200 (7200 already active)
real 0m10.945s
user 0m1.422s
sys 0m9.502s
Zdenek
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