Re: Kernel global lock in sr.c slows down parallel operations to multiple drive

2020-11-17 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 07:04:59AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > FWIW, I parsed this as "and possibly file a(nother) bug report[ about > this bug, since the one I thought I remembered having filed before seems > to have disappeared, if it ever existed in the first place]". Exactly, thank you for pa

Re: Kernel global lock in sr.c slows down parallel operations to multiple drive

2020-11-17 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-11-17 at 07:00, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> I will try to apply a similar patch and possibly report another >> bug. > > What is that other bug ? FWIW, I parsed this as "and possibly file a(nother) bug report[ about this bug, since the one I thought I remembered having filed before seems to

Re: Kernel global lock in sr.c slows down parallel operations to multiple drive

2020-11-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > In jessie, the kernel had a very annoying bug: if you did I/O on > multiple sr devices, the global lock in sr.c would slow down > to a crawl. I dedicated a little temple to that bug. https://dev.lovelyhq.com/libburnia/web/wiki/ConcurrentLinuxSr In short: - It is gone since about kernel

Kernel global lock in sr.c slows down parallel operations to multiple drive

2020-11-17 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, In jessie, the kernel had a very annoying bug: if you did I/O on multiple sr devices, the global lock in sr.c would slow down to a crawl. E.g. 5 DVD-R written to in parallel gave the same performance as one writing; and ejecting the DVD in parallel was completely sequential. Based on this