From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>,
linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
Alan Piszcz <ap@solarrain.com>xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 12x performance drop on md/linux+sw raid1 due to barriers [xfs]
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:36:17 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081214233617.GD32301@disturbed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4943F37B.8080405@sandeen.net>
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 11:40:11AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>
> > At the moment it appears to me that disabling write cache may often give
> > more performance than using barriers. And this doesn't match my
> > expectation of write barriers as a feature that enhances performance.
>
> Why do you have that expectation? I've never seen barriers advertised
> as enhancing performance. :)
>
> I do wonder why barriers on, write cache off is so slow; I'd have
> thought the barriers were a no-op. Maybe I'm missing something.
Barriers still enforce ordering in this case, so it affects the
elevator algorithm....
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-14 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-06 14:28 12x performance drop on md/linux+sw raid1 due to barriers [xfs] Justin Piszcz
2008-12-06 15:36 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-12-06 20:35 ` Redeeman
2008-12-13 12:54 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-12-13 17:26 ` Martin Steigerwald
2008-12-13 17:40 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-12-14 3:31 ` Redeeman
2008-12-14 14:02 ` Peter Grandi
2008-12-14 18:12 ` Martin Steigerwald
2008-12-14 22:02 ` Peter Grandi
2008-12-15 22:38 ` Dave Chinner
2008-12-16 9:39 ` Martin Steigerwald
2008-12-16 20:57 ` Peter Grandi
2008-12-16 23:14 ` Dave Chinner
2008-12-17 21:40 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-12-18 8:20 ` Leon Woestenberg
2008-12-18 23:33 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-12-21 19:16 ` Peter Grandi
2008-12-22 13:19 ` Leon Woestenberg
2008-12-18 22:26 ` Dave Chinner
2008-12-20 14:06 ` Peter Grandi
2008-12-14 18:35 ` Martin Steigerwald
2008-12-14 17:49 ` Martin Steigerwald
2008-12-14 23:36 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2008-12-13 18:01 ` David Lethe
2008-12-06 18:42 ` Peter Grandi
2008-12-11 0:20 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-12-11 9:18 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-12-11 9:24 ` Justin Piszcz
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2008-12-14 18:33 Martin Steigerwald
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