Re: Soft-Raid 0 Performance | Transfer two Data-Streams (CPU+FPGA) to the same Soft-Raid

[Eric Schwarz <eas@sw-optimization.com>]

Hi Coly,

>> 1.) I have set-up a softraid (raid level 0) with mdadm using two M.2
>> modules. For one module the throughput is ~350MB/s (no mdadm) for two
>> modules the throughput is ~500MB/s which is less than factor 1,5 of 
>> the
>> throughput of a single drive. The filesystem used is ext4. Is there
>> someone having some values for comparison? For me the throughput gain
>> seems to be too little. The test was done using a HP Z840 workstation.
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Could you attach your testing script as well, than we can have a look.

Create RAID0:
$ mdadm --create /dev/md0 --auto md --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb1 
/dev/sdc1

Write to bare RAID0:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=1G count=1 oflag=dsync

dd will show the throughput

Cheers
Eric