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From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
To: Ming Lin <mlin@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: write performance of HW RAID VS MD RAID
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 05:27:29 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150611052729.258dddfa@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF1ivSa644NVVd5R=2g8rvbZ-FK5cgXy_U1XJjYwMf+TJdftCw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:27:07 -0700
Ming Lin <mlin@kernel.org> wrote:

> Hi NeilBrown,
> 
> As you may already see, I run a lot of tests with 10 HDDs for the patchset
> "simplify block layer based on immutable biovecs"
> 
> Here is the summary.
> http://minggr.net/pub/20150608/fio_results/summary.log
> 
> MD RAID6 read performance is OK.
> But write performance is much lower than HW RAID6.
> 
> Is it a known issue?

Did you tune the stripe_cache_size for the array? Try 32768.
https://peterkieser.com/2009/11/29/raid-mdraid-stripe_cache_size-vs-write-transfer/

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With respect,
Roman

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-11  0:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-10 22:27 write performance of HW RAID VS MD RAID Ming Lin
2015-06-10 23:00 ` Neil Brown
2015-06-10 23:34   ` Steven Haigh
2015-06-10 23:59   ` Ming Lin
2015-06-11  0:28     ` Neil Brown
2015-06-11  0:27 ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
2015-06-11  5:39   ` AW: " Markus Stockhausen
2015-06-11  6:02     ` Ming Lin
2015-06-12 17:20       ` Ming Lin

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