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* Raid5 Read Perf drop in 2.6.27
@ 2009-09-09 22:54 Linux Raid Study
  2009-09-09 23:52 ` Majed B.
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: Linux Raid Study @ 2009-09-09 22:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello:

I'm benchmarking RAID5 Read performance with 4 disks and notice perf
drop when using kernel 2.6.27.
The perf with 2.6.27 is 150MB/s whereas with kernel 2.6.21 (and same
setup), the perf is 180MB/s/



Some of the tests I have done:
1. I ran  experiments using iozone also but notice that READ perf with
RAID5 in 2.6.27 is ~30% less as compared to 2.6.21.
Write perf is similar but Read is an issue.

2. On 2.6.27, I played around with chunk size and blocksize parameters
and got ~5% improvement but not much. I used following cmds:

#mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --assume-clean --raid-devices=4
/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd --chunk=32
#mke2fs -b 4096 -E stride=8 /dev/md0

#time dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null bs=94208 count=1024


Is this perf drop a known issue? Can someone please recommend some
performance tuning tips?

Thanks a lot for your time and help!

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