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From: Lutz Vieweg <lvml@5t9.de>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Software RAID and TRIM
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:20:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <j06h5o$ebm$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j0613g$aoe$1@dough.gmane.org>

On 07/20/2011 09:42 AM, David Brown wrote:
>> http://tdm27.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/some-solid-state-drive-benchmarks/
>
> The telling figure here, though, is that TRIM made the single drive significantly slower.

More precisely, online-TRIM of ext4 on Intel SSDs seems to be a bad combination.

I think it's clear you cannot gain much from TRIM if you're willing to spend
the money for 2 times overprovisioning, anyway. You can lose significantly from
online-trim when the filesystem issues a lot of TRIM commands all the time and
when the SSD is slow to process them.

TRIM gains you an advantage with less over-provisioning, and is better
done in batches after significant amounts of data have been written/deleted.

When you try with different levels of over-provisioning, also try with
batched discards (fstrim) between runs of your benchmark.

Regards,

Lutz Vieweg



  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-20 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-28 15:31 Software RAID and TRIM Tom De Mulder
2011-06-28 16:11 ` Mathias Burén
2011-06-29 10:32   ` Tom De Mulder
2011-06-29 10:45     ` NeilBrown
2011-06-29 11:10       ` Tom De Mulder
2011-06-29 11:48         ` Scott E. Armitage
2011-06-29 12:46           ` Roberto Spadim
2011-06-29 12:46       ` David Brown
2011-06-30  0:28         ` NeilBrown
2011-06-30  7:50           ` David Brown
2011-06-29 13:39       ` Namhyung Kim
2011-06-30  0:27         ` NeilBrown
2011-07-17 22:11       ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-17 21:57     ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-06-29 10:33   ` Tom De Mulder
2011-06-29 12:42     ` David Brown
2011-06-29 12:55       ` Tom De Mulder
2011-06-29 13:02         ` Roberto Spadim
2011-06-29 13:10         ` David Brown
2011-06-30  5:51         ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-07-04  9:13           ` Tom De Mulder
2011-07-04 16:26             ` Werner Fischer
2011-07-17 22:31               ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-17 22:16         ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-17 22:00     ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-06-28 16:17 ` Johannes Truschnigg
2011-06-28 16:40 ` David Brown
2011-07-17 21:52   ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-18  5:14     ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-07-18 10:35     ` David Brown
2011-07-18 10:48       ` Tom De Mulder
2011-07-18 18:09       ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-18 20:18         ` David Brown
2011-07-19  9:29           ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-19 10:22             ` David Brown
2011-07-19 13:41               ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-19 15:06                 ` David Brown
2011-07-20 10:39                   ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-19 14:19               ` Tom De Mulder
2011-07-20  7:42                 ` David Brown
2011-07-20 12:20                   ` Lutz Vieweg [this message]
2011-07-20 12:13                 ` Werner Fischer
2011-07-20 12:25                   ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-18 10:53     ` Tom De Mulder
2011-07-18 12:13       ` Werner Fischer

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