[DRBD-user] Multi-threaded on-line verification

Ben RUBSON ben.rubson at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 14:45:54 CEST 2014

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Let's assume that we have a resource which contains several volumes.
> > When an on-line verification is launched, all volumes are verified
> > together, but it seems that the job is made by only one thread.
> > The bottleneck in the on-line verification are not the disks, but the
> > CPU, as it must deal with many (for example) crc32c operations.
> >
> > So my question is, could we think about an implementation which would
> > start one verification thread for each volume ?
> > It would dramatically speed-up on-line verification (for my own case,
> > with 4 volumes in 1 resource, it would decrease verification time from
> > 56 hours to 14 hours).
>
> iirc, when we implemented it, the kernel crypto api was supposed
> to get asynchronous hash support "soon", so we did not bother to add our
> own threading/async layer over this.
>
> Guess that "soon" is very relative.
>
> Yes, we can add that as feature request
> somewhere on our (not so short) todo list.
>

Lars,
Thank you very much for your explanation and for taking this request into
account !
Best regards,
Ben
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20140422/1e765773/attachment.htm>


More information about the drbd-user mailing list