From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: [Bug 42939] hv_storvsc - write cache enabled by default and cannot be disabled Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:33:30 GMT Message-ID: <201203191933.q2JJXU7i027495@bugzilla.kernel.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from bugzilla.kernel.org ([198.145.19.204]:45123 "EHLO bugzilla.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965127Ab2CSTdb (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:33:31 -0400 Received: from bugzilla.kernel.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bugzilla.kernel.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q2JJXUcs027496 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:33:30 GMT In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42939 --- Comment #1 from Mark 2012-03-19 19:33:29 --- Additional information: trying to disable the writecache leads to the partition on the SCSI device getting remounted read-only due to device errors. Additional information (2): I get 5.000 to 6.000 random reads per second even when manually creating the fiometer file using random data from /dev/urandom (ie. fio doesn't access zeroes in that case). Additional information (3): The host doesn't seem to cache anything: "dd iflag=direct if=/dev/sda bs=1M of=/dev/null count=10" always and repeatedly gives me around 30-60 MB/s. Additional information (4): I did a simple MySQL InnoDB ACID transaction test where subsequent transactions are done via a remote mysql client as fast as possible. I crashed the host hardware and checked if all transactions reported as completed had been committed to disk: no obvious problems there -- seemingly the reported writecache has no writecache-effects at all...?? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug.