From: "Grant Grundler" <grundler@google.com>
To: kenneth johansson <ken@kenjo.org>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: weird throughput on write to SATA disk
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:09:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da824cf30810140909y11bdd92akf9046c996c367130@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1223975694.3947.77.camel@duo>
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:14 AM, kenneth johansson <ken@kenjo.org> wrote:
...
> All my numbers comes from using 1MB blocks. but I'm not using dd.
> After removing the logic that actually put some data into the buffers I
> do get about 105 MB/sec using O_DIRECT.
Ok. Good.
> I'm doing a full disk write now to get a reference plot.
See http://hdperf.sourceforge.net/ and http://nathan.laredo.name/hdperf/
Simple tool to (relatively) quickly measure the perf across the disk platter.
> Not using O_DIRECT should be almost identical.
*should* - but there are known problems with writeback.
Some of them are described nicely by Dave Chinner as "Random Thought #3":
http://iou.parisc-linux.org/lsf2008/linux_storage_scalability-Dave_Chinner.odp
Look for "writeback" for a summary of the discussion:
http://iou.parisc-linux.org/lsf2008/SUMMARY-Storage.txt
hth,
grant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-14 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-13 19:19 weird throughput on write to SATA disk kenneth johansson
2008-10-13 21:07 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-13 21:22 ` kenneth johansson
2008-10-13 21:34 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-13 21:35 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-13 22:19 ` kenneth johansson
2008-10-14 1:33 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-14 9:14 ` kenneth johansson
2008-10-14 9:17 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-14 19:10 ` kenneth johansson
2008-10-14 16:09 ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2008-10-13 22:39 ` Alan Cox
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