Linux RAID subsystem development
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>
To: mark delfman <markdelfman@googlemail.com>
Cc: Linux RAID Mailing List <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: single cpu thread performance limit?
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:04:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E4427AC.6070005@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAACGR8sSieD1MLCEnY0Wv24pHd9xpcJ=mhduwGMCqo5A5ttZpw@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/11/2011 05:58 PM, mark delfman wrote:
> I seem to have hit a significant hard stop in MD RAID1/10 performance
> which seems to be linked to a single CPU thread.
>
> I am using extremely high speed (IOPS) internal block devices – 8 in
> total.  They are capable of achieving>  1million iops.
>
> However if I use RAID1 / 10 then MD seems to use a single thread which
> will reach 100% CPU utilisation (single core) at around 200K IOPS.
> Limiting the entire performance to around 200K.
>

Out of interest, could you please run "perf top" to let us see where the 
kernel is busy?

Thanks,
Bernd
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-11 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-11 15:58 single cpu thread performance limit? mark delfman
2011-08-11 16:01 ` Mathias Burén
2011-08-11 16:07   ` mark delfman
2011-08-11 18:58 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-08-11 19:37   ` mark delfman
2011-08-11 19:57     ` Joe Landman
2011-08-12  9:04       ` David Brown
2011-08-11 20:51     ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-08-12  1:05       ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-08-12 12:48     ` Asdo
2011-08-12 13:23   ` mark delfman
2011-08-12 14:23     ` Asdo
2011-08-12 20:51     ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-08-11 19:04 ` Bernd Schubert [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4E4427AC.6070005@fastmail.fm \
    --to=bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm \
    --cc=linux-raid@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=markdelfman@googlemail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox