Re: 2.5.32 IO performance issues

[Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
>>I am having severe IO performance problems with 2.5.32 (2.5.31 works fine).
>>I was wondering what caused this.
>>
>>As you can see, IO rate went from
>>
>>		384MB/sec with 6% CPU utilization on 2.5.31
>>			to
>>		120MB/sec with 19% CPU utilization on 2.5.32
>>
>>Any idea ?
> 
> 384 MB/s is suspiciously fast.  What kind of disk subsystem
> do you have to achieve that speed ?

Oh, that's nothing! :)

> Hardware: 8x 700MHz P-III, 4 Qlogic FC controllers, 40 disks
> Test: 40 dds on 40 raw devices (40 disks).

One tray of 10 10k RPM disks, per controller.  The controllers are also 
spread across 2 completely separate 64bit/66Mhz PCI busses (not bridged).

   Bus 10, device   8, function  0:
     SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. QLA2200 (#2) (rev 5).
       IRQ 23.
       Master Capable.  Latency=96.  Min Gnt=64.
       I/O at 0xb000 [0xb0ff].
       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfe1ff000 [0xfe1fffff].
   Bus 10, device   9, function  0:
     SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. QLA2200 (#3) (rev 5).
       IRQ 24.
       Master Capable.  Latency=96.  Min Gnt=64.
       I/O at 0xb100 [0xb1ff].
       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfe1fe000 [0xfe1fefff].
   Bus 13, device   6, function  0:
     SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. QLA2200 (#4) (rev 5).
       IRQ 21.
       Master Capable.  Latency=96.  Min Gnt=64.
       I/O at 0xd000 [0xd0ff].
       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebff000 [0xfebfffff].
   Bus 13, device   7, function  0:
     SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. QLA2200 (#5) (rev 5).
       IRQ 22.
       Master Capable.  Latency=96.  Min Gnt=64.
       I/O at 0xd100 [0xd1ff].
       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebfe000 [0xfebfefff].


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Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com