From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: NeilBrown Subject: Re: md RAID with enterprise-class SATA or SAS drives Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 12:08:19 +1000 Message-ID: <20120524120819.08ffa3b0@notabene.brown> References: <4FAAE8F1.8000600@pocock.com.au> <4FABC7C6.4030107@turmel.org> <4FAC2FF2.5060305@hardwarefreak.com> <4FAC40BC.1060300@hesbynett.no> <4FACBB68.2080304@hesbynett.no> <4FACCAC8.4020206@pocock.com.au> <4FAD9283.7020809@hardwarefreak.com> <4FBA8EA9.40203@hardwarefreak.com> <20120522093404.3ffaae42@notabene.brown> <4FBB33D6.4010101@hardwarefreak.com> <4FBB406B.7040904@hesbynett.no> <4FBCE2C2.6030909@hardwarefreak.com> <4FBD3F49.5060005@hesbynett.no> <4FBD76F1.80400@hardwarefreak.com> <4FBD8C4E.5090507@hardwarefreak.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/sS2=.BM9CkPQCEx8dKDzyiQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4FBD8C4E.5090507@hardwarefreak.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: stan@hardwarefreak.com Cc: David Brown , CoolCold , Daniel Pocock , Roberto Spadim , Phil Turmel , Marcus Sorensen , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids --Sig_/sS2=.BM9CkPQCEx8dKDzyiQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 23 May 2012 20:18:06 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/23/2012 6:46 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 5/23/2012 2:49 PM, David Brown wrote: > >=20 > >> It looks like Shaohua Li has done some testing, found that there is a > >> slow-down even with just 2 or 4 disks, and has written patches to fix = it > >> (for raid1 and raid10 so far), which is very nice. > >=20 > > Ahh, thanks David. I wasn't aware of Shaohua Li's > > work on this. Got a link to his documentation and patches, or article, > > by chance? >=20 > My Google searches only turn up Shaohua Li's TRIM patches. I don't > believe the issue we're discussing has anything to do with TRIM, though > I can't be 100% sure as Mark didn't provide much detail of his thread > ceiling problem, and I don't have a suitable system to do proper testing. >=20 > Again it would be nice to have a link to Shaohua Li's work to which you > refer to determine if it's applicable to this issue. >=20 It's probably in your INBOX. http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg38899.html NeilBrown --Sig_/sS2=.BM9CkPQCEx8dKDzyiQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBT72YEznsnt1WYoG5AQI4Gw//ZKrDwIbNbCZxTFSUiZ1Vgwf4GijXQebX tU29EVz5A7Ssj2ITix01chkNwy3HgSlJIjtWqduFJrRUE++gJix3I0NP2qPHEw3P TimzwlPGjKs0tWP3bR+P4S/vw34KYTWiqnvqXVaGnePsqqOeDdVU4VvmIwkbwdlO uFlBXCY5jL37p+W3JEx2QibwHijdHome0ZwWCDXl79IjFzLuH34a/7si+hBMNWVP Fbp4mcGhQs+C45cYADULcMeqxhORFgYMQijbK2dRFGY065NL0wQ0ptGdVg8tAm3u buNXEnvKnEK7tNteEX2K+3qwCECT6y+SkEuqoC3h0YaQmbscanmWtvdSXYlN3XWL yVvrAA/K/VdX53llLQVVeC0/erwne+XDpo6zE7MyEbaI/c5RpjR1CoekH7tfYVKM e9CrfHcX+sdf3bhMYPLOFLDdIvP3M0B7JoSBwUsg7PoVyuDGjQISC/GcL8lL5fwI g4HRsSrjqW9JoCrrTOKuf4rRXGNgi22m+KDpI9Xmj4Zkirntzg9zOmAE3iZdub+I GpTxTnF+SQRSB5st6sJsKt6jd7U8mR/Vw3jKLinovbz6tGarg6TFrHReXupadiHY ufjZlinvRVxK/PFF6BnWzCgLBrcJuCpNa3bNvJD141XNqqXRlgywWQUOlE2dPkJi YdNu7HtKABY= =EEsk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/sS2=.BM9CkPQCEx8dKDzyiQ--