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From: jmerkey <jmerkey@utah-nac.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de>,
	Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
	linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:59:39 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4315D3EB.4000601@utah-nac.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050831171124.GH4018@suse.de>


512 is not enough. It has to be larger. I just tried 512 and it still 
limits the data rates.

Jeff


Jens Axboe wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 31 2005, jmerkey wrote:
>  
>
>>I have seen an 80GB/sec limitation in the kernel unless this value is 
>>changed in the SCSI I/O layer
>>for 3Ware and other controllers during testing of 2.6.X series kernels.
>>
>>Change these values in include/linux/blkdev.h and performance goes from 
>>80MB/S to over 670MB/S on the 3Ware controller.
>>
>>
>>//#define BLKDEV_MIN_RQ    4
>>//#define BLKDEV_MAX_RQ    128    /* Default maximum */
>>#define BLKDEV_MIN_RQ    4096
>>#define BLKDEV_MAX_RQ    8192    /* Default maximum */
>>    
>>
>
>That's insane, you just wasted 1MiB of preallocated requests on each
>queue in the system!
>
>Please just do
>
># echo 512 > /sys/block/dev/queue/nr_requests
>
>after boot for each device you want to increase the queue size too. 512
>should be enough with the 3ware.
>
>  
>


  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-31 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-29 18:20 Where is the performance bottleneck? Holger Kiehl
2005-08-29 19:54 ` Mark Hahn
2005-08-30 19:08   ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-30 23:05     ` Guy
2005-09-28 20:04       ` Bill Davidsen
2005-09-30  4:52         ` Guy
2005-09-30  5:19           ` dean gaudet
2005-10-06 21:15           ` Bill Davidsen
2005-08-29 20:10 ` Al Boldi
2005-08-30 19:18   ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-31 10:30     ` Al Boldi
2005-08-29 23:09 ` Peter Chubb
     [not found] ` <20050829202529.GA32214@midnight.suse.cz>
2005-08-30 20:06   ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-31  7:11     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-08-31  7:26       ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-31 11:54         ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-31 12:07           ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-31 13:55             ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-31 14:24               ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2005-08-31 20:56                 ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-31 21:16                   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2005-08-31 16:20               ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-31 15:16                 ` jmerkey
2005-08-31 16:58                   ` Tom Callahan
2005-08-31 15:47                     ` jmerkey
2005-08-31 17:11                   ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-31 15:59                     ` jmerkey [this message]
2005-08-31 17:32                       ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-31 16:51                 ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-31 17:35                   ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-31 19:00                     ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-31 18:06                   ` Michael Tokarev
2005-08-31 18:52                     ` Ming Zhang
2005-08-31 18:57                       ` Ming Zhang
2005-08-31 12:24           ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-31 16:25             ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-31 17:25               ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-31 21:57                 ` Holger Kiehl
2005-09-01  9:12                   ` Holger Kiehl
2005-09-02 14:28                     ` Al Boldi
2005-08-31 13:38       ` Holger Kiehl

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