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md/raid5: set chunk_sectors to enable full stripe I/O splitting
Set chunk_sectors to the full stripe width (io_opt) so that the block layer splits I/O at full stripe boundaries. This ensures that large writes are aligned to full stripes, avoiding the read-modify-write overhead that occurs with partial stripe writes in RAID-5/6. When chunk_sectors is set, the block layer's bio splitting logic in get_max_io_size() uses blk_boundary_sectors_left() to limit I/O size to the boundary. This naturally aligns split bios to full stripe boundaries, enabling more efficient full stripe writes. Test results with 24-disk RAID5 (chunk_size=64k): dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=10M oflag=direct Before: 461 MB/s After: 520 MB/s (+12.8%) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-raid/20260223035834.3132498-1-yukuai@fnnas.com Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai@fnnas.com>
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@@ -7780,6 +7780,7 @@ static int raid5_set_limits(struct mddev *mddev)
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lim.logical_block_size = mddev->logical_block_size;
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lim.io_min = mddev->chunk_sectors << 9;
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lim.io_opt = lim.io_min * (conf->raid_disks - conf->max_degraded);
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lim.chunk_sectors = lim.io_opt >> 9;
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lim.features |= BLK_FEAT_RAID_PARTIAL_STRIPES_EXPENSIVE;
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lim.discard_granularity = stripe;
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lim.max_write_zeroes_sectors = 0;

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