I enabled enabled -proposed and installed 4.4.0-155.182, and went through the
test case on a c5.large instance on aws. Note, I used the -generic kernel since
-aws doesn't seem to be ready yet.
The problem is solved and performance is the same as non-snapshot mounted disks.
We can see that merging has been enabled by looking at the flag:
I enabled enabled -proposed and installed 4.4.0-155.182, and went through the
test case on a c5.large instance on aws. Note, I used the -generic kernel since
-aws doesn't seem to be ready yet.
The problem is solved and performance is the same as non-snapshot mounted disks.
We can see that merging has been enabled by looking at the flag:
$ cat /sys/block/ nvme1n1/ queue/nomerges
0
The problem is fixed. Changing tag to verified.