From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jeff.johnson@aeoncomputing.com (Jeff Johnson) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 11:35:55 -0800 Subject: Expected performance level of nvme driver v0.8 (Ubuntu 13.10/3.11.0-12-generic) Message-ID: <53177C9B.8080606@aeoncomputing.com> Greetings, I am doing some testing and benchmarking with the v0.8 nvme driver in Ubuntu 13.10/3.11.0-12-generic. With a PCIe Gen3 nvme compliant device I am seeing sequential (single thread) write and read numbers in the 900MB/sec range. Based on the device I was expecting higher numbers. Is this an expected level of performance for this version of the driver? Thanks, --Jeff -- ------------------------------ Jeff Johnson Co-Founder Aeon Computing jeff.johnson at aeoncomputing.com www.aeoncomputing.com t: 858-412-3810 x1001 f: 858-412-3845 4170 Morena Boulevard, Suite D - San Diego, CA 92117 High-performance Computing / Lustre Filesystems / Scale-out Storage