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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@gmail.com>,
	Roger Lucas <roger@planbit.co.uk>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Odd (slow) RAID performance
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:20:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <457B1A82.6070105@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17785.5135.749830.180388@cse.unsw.edu.au>

Neil Brown wrote:
> On Friday December 8, neilb@suse.de wrote:
>   
>> I have measured very slow write throughput for raid5 as well, though
>> 2.6.18 does seem to have the same problem.  I'll double check and do a
>> git bisect and see what I can come up with.
>>     
>
> Correction... it isn't 2.6.18 that fixes the problem.  It is compiling
> without LOCKDEP or PROVE_LOCKING.  I remove those and suddenly a
> 3 drive raid5 is faster than a single drive rather than much slower.
>
> Bill:  Do you have LOCKDEP or PROVE_LOCKING enabled in your .config ??
>   
I have to check tomorrow, I'm using the Fedora kernel (as noted in the 
first post on this) rather than one I built, just so others could verify 
my results as several have been kind enough to do. Have to run, but I 
will check tomorrow or Monday morning early at the latest.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979


  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-09 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-30 14:13 Odd (slow) RAID performance Bill Davidsen
2006-11-30 14:31 ` Roger Lucas
2006-11-30 15:30   ` Bill Davidsen
2006-11-30 15:32     ` Roger Lucas
2006-11-30 21:09       ` Bill Davidsen
2006-12-01  9:24         ` Roger Lucas
2006-12-02  5:27           ` Bill Davidsen
2006-12-05  1:33             ` Dan Williams
2006-12-07 15:51               ` Bill Davidsen
2006-12-08  1:15                 ` Corey Hickey
2006-12-08  8:21                 ` Gabor Gombas
2006-12-08  6:01               ` Neil Brown
2006-12-08  7:28                 ` Neil Brown
2006-12-09 20:20                   ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2006-12-12 17:44                   ` Bill Davidsen
2006-12-12 18:48                     ` Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
2006-12-12 21:51                       ` Bill Davidsen
2006-12-13 17:44                         ` Mark Hahn
2006-12-20  4:05                           ` Bill Davidsen
2006-12-09 20:16                 ` Bill Davidsen

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