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From: kedacomkernel <kedacomkernel@gmail.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: O_DIRECT to md raid 6 is slow
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:07:06 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201208150906343285670@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CALCETrWCu=UPATPdqWP=Gpvswv-RDwaxfr1W1jxYtUMZsqKgSQ@mail.gmail.com

On 2012-08-15 08:49 Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Wrote:
>If I do:
># dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0p1 bs=8M
>then iostat -m 5 says:
>
>avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
>           0.00    0.00   26.88   35.27    0.00   37.85
>
>Device:            tps    MB_read/s    MB_wrtn/s    MB_read    MB_wrtn
>sdb             265.20         1.16        54.79          5        273
>sdc             266.20         1.47        54.73          7        273
>sdd             264.20         1.38        54.54          6        272
>sdf             286.00         1.84        54.74          9        273
>sde             266.60         1.04        54.75          5        273
>sdg             265.00         1.02        54.74          5        273
>md0           55808.00         0.00       218.00          0       1090
>
>If I do:
># dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0p1 bs=8M oflag=direct
>then iostat -m 5 says:
>avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
>           0.00    0.00   11.70   12.94    0.00   75.36
>
>Device:            tps    MB_read/s    MB_wrtn/s    MB_read    MB_wrtn
>sdb             831.00         8.58        30.42         42        152
>sdc             832.80         8.05        29.99         40        149
>sdd             832.00         9.10        29.78         45        148
>sdf             838.40         9.11        29.72         45        148
>sde             828.80         7.91        29.79         39        148
>sdg             850.80         8.00        30.18         40        150
>md0            1012.60         0.00       101.27          0        506
>
>It looks like md isn't recognizing that I'm writing whole stripes when
>I'm in O_DIRECT mode.
>
kernel version?

>--Andy
>
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>Andy Lutomirski
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-15  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-15  0:49 O_DIRECT to md raid 6 is slow Andy Lutomirski
2012-08-15  1:07 ` kedacomkernel [this message]
2012-08-15  1:12   ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-08-15  1:23     ` kedacomkernel
2012-08-15 11:50 ` John Robinson
2012-08-15 17:57   ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-08-15 22:00     ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-15 22:10       ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-08-15 23:50         ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-16  1:08           ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-08-16  6:41           ` Roman Mamedov
     [not found]     ` <201208152307.q7FN7hMR008630@xs8.xs4all.nl>
     [not found]       ` <502CD3F8.70001@hardwarefreak.com>
     [not found]         ` <502D6B0A.6090508@xs4all.net>
     [not found]           ` <502DF357.8090205@hardwarefreak.com>
     [not found]             ` <502E2817.8040306@xs4all.net>
2012-08-18  5:09               ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-18 10:08                 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-08-19  3:17                   ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-19 14:01                     ` David Brown
2012-08-19 23:34                       ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-20  0:01                         ` NeilBrown
2012-08-20  4:44                           ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-20  5:19                             ` Dave Chinner
2012-08-20  5:42                               ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-20  7:47                           ` David Brown
2012-08-21 14:51                         ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2012-08-22  3:59                           ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-19 17:02                     ` Chris Murphy

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