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There was a performance regression reported where dm-crypt would perform worse on new kernels than on old kernels. The reason is that the old kernels split the bios to NVMe request size (that is usually 65536 or 131072 bytes) and the new kernels pass the big bios through dm-crypt and split them underneath. If a big 1MiB bio is passed to dm-crypt, dm-crypt processes it on a single core without parallelization and this is what causes the performance degradation. This commit introduces new tunable variables /sys/module/dm_crypt/parameters/max_read_size and /sys/module/dm_crypt/parameters/max_write_size that specify the maximum bio size for dm-crypt. Bios larger than this value are split, so that they can be encrypted in parallel by multiple cores. If these variables are '0', a default 131072 is used. Splitting bios may cause performance regressions in other workloads - if this happens, the user should increase the value in max_read_size and max_write_size variables. max_read_size: 128k 2399MiB/s 256k 2368MiB/s 512k 1986MiB/s 1024 1790MiB/s max_write_size: 128k 1712MiB/s 256k 1651MiB/s 512k 1537MiB/s 1024k 1332MiB/s Note that if you run dm-crypt inside a virtual machine, you may need to do "echo numa >/sys/module/workqueue/parameters/default_affinity_scope" to improve performance. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Tested-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
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