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From: Pat LaVarre <p.lavarre@ieee.org>
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: aligned /dev/scd$n reads less rare how
Date: 29 Sep 2003 11:55:21 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1064858121.4262.0.camel@patehci2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1064850600.25057.7.camel@patehci2>

Anything easy I can do to make aligned reads more common?

I ask because often thru /dev/scd$n I see seemingly pointless
misalignment, for example, if I read a 1 GiB disk:

$ sudo blockdev --flushbufs /dev/scd0
$ time sudo dd if=/dev/scd0 bs=1M
...

usb-storage:  x 43 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 00
usb-storage:  x 43 02 00 00 00 00 01 00 0C 00
usb-storage:  x 1E 00 00 00 01 00
usb-storage:  x 00 00 00 00 00 00
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 24 00
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 00 00 44 00 00 40 00
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 00 00 84 00 00 40 00
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 00 00 C4 00 00 40 00
...
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 07 FE C4 00 00 40 00
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 07 FF 04 00 00 06 00
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 07 FF 0A 00 00 3A 00
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 07 FF 44 00 00 40 00
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 07 FF 84 00 00 0A 00
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 07 FF 8E 00 00 36 00
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 07 FF C4 00 00 3C 00
...

1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
 
real    0m54.809s
user    0m0.015s
sys     0m9.039s
$

Pat LaVarre

P.S.

I know I can read aligned thru /dev/sg0 as follows.

$
$ time sudo sg_dd if=/dev/sg0 bs=2k bpt=512 count=524288
of=/mnt/hda11/z.bin
...
 
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 5
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 00 02 00 00 02 00 00
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 00 04 00 00 02 00 00
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 00 06 00 00 02 00 00
...
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 07 FA 00 00 02 00 00
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 07 FC 00 00 02 00 00
usb-storage:  x 28 00 00 07 FE 00 00 02 00 00

524288+0 records in
524288+0 records out
 
real    0m56.567s
user    0m0.027s
sys     0m7.236s
$

I see this approach to aligning reads slowed me down a second or two.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-29 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-22 22:55 [linux-usb-devel] Re: USB storage problems on OHCI Pat LaVarre
2003-09-29 14:54 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-09-29 15:50   ` 2 KiB/block loopback found where Pat LaVarre
2003-09-29 16:46     ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-29 17:12       ` Pat LaVarre
2003-09-29 20:02         ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 17:12           ` max GiB written per boot Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 18:12             ` writable mmc profiles actually are writable Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 18:22               ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-06 18:25                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-06 19:50                   ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 20:38                     ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-06 20:58                       ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 22:14                         ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 23:56                           ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-07  5:38                             ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-07  6:45                               ` Matthew Dharm
2003-10-07  6:48                                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-07  7:00                                   ` Matthew Dharm
2003-10-07  7:04                                     ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-10 20:36                                       ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-10 21:04                                         ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-10 21:25                                           ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-10 22:43                                             ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-10 23:16                                               ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-11  0:43                                                 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-07 20:46                               ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-07 21:00                                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-09 23:01                                   ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-07  7:00                         ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-06 20:10                 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 20:28                   ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-06 20:21                 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 20:33                   ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-06 21:00             ` max GiB written per boot Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 23:47               ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-07  5:57                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-07 22:12                   ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-07 22:57                     ` Willem Riede
2003-10-08  1:27                       ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-08  4:34                         ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-08  6:44                           ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-09 21:59                     ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-10 20:54                       ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-07  0:51         ` 2 KiB/block loopback found where Pat LaVarre
2003-09-29 17:55     ` Pat LaVarre [this message]
2003-09-29 19:39       ` zip of GiB cross-platform Pat LaVarre
2003-09-29 19:50         ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-29 19:56           ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-24 14:41       ` aligned /dev/scd$n reads less rare how Pat LaVarre

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