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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, josef@redhat.com,
	Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: direct-io regression [Was: How to track down abysmal performance ata - raid1 - crypto - vg/lv - xfs]
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 15:01:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100805190138.GV29846@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x49tyn8c2ea.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 02:58:37PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> writes:
> 
> > But, I'm surprised your drive is doing 8K dio reads at 16MB/s, that
> > seems a little high.  
> 
> I'm not sure why you think that.  We're talking about a plain old SATA
> disk, right?  I can get 40-50MB/s on my systems for 8KB O_DIRECT reads.
> What am I missing?

Clearly I'm wrong, his drive is going much faster ;)  I expect the
smaller reads to be slower but the drive's internal cache is doing well.

-chris

      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-05 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-04  7:35 How to track down abysmal performance ata - raid1 - crypto - vg/lv - xfs Dominik Brodowski
2010-08-04  8:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-04  9:13   ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-08-04  9:21     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-04  9:16 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-08-04 10:25   ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-08-04 11:18     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-04 11:24       ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-08-04 11:53       ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-08-04 12:56         ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-04 22:24         ` Neil Brown
     [not found]     ` <20100804111803.GA32643__39273.3621680692$1280923964$gmane$org@infradead.org>
2010-08-04 17:43       ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-04 20:33     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-08-05  9:31       ` direct-io regression [Was: How to track down abysmal performance ata - raid1 - crypto - vg/lv - xfs] Dominik Brodowski
2010-08-05 11:32         ` Chris Mason
2010-08-05 12:36           ` Josef Bacik
2010-08-05 15:35           ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-08-05 15:39             ` Chris Mason
2010-08-05 15:53               ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-08-05 16:35             ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-08-05 20:47               ` Performance impact of CONFIG_DEBUG? direct-io test case Dominik Brodowski
2010-08-05 20:54               ` Performance impact of CONFIG_SCHED_MC? " Dominik Brodowski
2010-08-05 18:58           ` direct-io regression [Was: How to track down abysmal performance ata - raid1 - crypto - vg/lv - xfs] Jeff Moyer
2010-08-05 19:01             ` Chris Mason [this message]

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