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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Sergey Meirovich <rathamahata@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Gluk <git.user@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Terrible performance of sequential O_DIRECT 4k writes in SAN environment. ~3 times slower then Solars 10 with the same HBA/Storage.
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 07:26:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140108152610.GA5863@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+QCeVQy08m9oBM1ULE_KAjd-36ao35p7-BCWErJewyr3m6NGg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 04:43:07PM +0200, Sergey Meirovich wrote:
> Results are almost the same:
>     14.68Mb/sec  3758.02 Requests/sec
>

On my laptop SSD I get the following results (sometimes up to 200MB/s,
sometimes down to 100MB/s, always in the 40k to 50k IOps range):

time elapsed (sec.):	5
bandwidth (MiB/s):	160.00
IOps:			40960.00

The IOps are more than the hardware is physically capable of, but given
that you didn't specify O_SYNC this seems sensible given that we never
have to flush the disk cache.

Could it be that your array has WCE=0?  In Linux we'll never enable the
cache automatically, but Solaris does at least when using ZFS.  Try
running:

   sdparm --set=WCE /dev/sdX

and try again.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-08 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-06  9:38 Terrible performance of sequential O_DIRECT 4k writes in SAN environment. ~3 times slower then Solars 10 with the same HBA/Storage Sergey Meirovich
2014-01-06 20:10 ` Jan Kara
2014-01-07  9:13   ` Sergey Meirovich
2014-01-07 15:58   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-01-07 18:37     ` Sergey Meirovich
2014-01-08 14:03       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-01-08 14:43         ` Sergey Meirovich
2014-01-08 15:26           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-01-08 17:30             ` Sergey Meirovich
2014-01-08 20:55               ` Jan Kara
2014-01-09 10:11                 ` Sergey Meirovich
2014-01-10  9:36                   ` Jan Kara
2014-01-10 10:36                     ` Sergey Meirovich
2014-01-10 10:48                       ` Jan Kara
2014-01-10 14:32                         ` Sergey Meirovich
2014-01-10 18:14                           ` Sergey Meirovich
2014-01-14 13:30         ` Sergey Meirovich
2014-01-15 22:07           ` Dave Chinner
2014-01-20 13:58             ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-01-20 22:18               ` Dave Chinner
2014-01-08  1:17     ` Jan Kara
2014-01-08 14:03       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-01-07 20:57   ` James Smart
2014-01-08 13:57     ` Sergey Meirovich
2014-01-09 19:54       ` Douglas Gilbert
2014-01-09 21:26         ` Sergey Meirovich
2014-01-09 21:43           ` Sergey Meirovich
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-01-06 13:16 Sergey Meirovich

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