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From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, stephenmcameron@gmail.com, dab@hp.com
Subject: Re: SCSI mid layer and high IOPS capable devices
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:40:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C9BEAB.6010702@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121211224626.GB20898@beardog.cce.hp.com>

On 12/11/12 23:46, scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com wrote:
> I would be curious to see what kind of results you would get with scsi_debug
> with fake_rw=1.  I am sort of suspecting that trying to put an "upper limit"
> on scsi LLD IOPS performance by seeing what scsi_debug will do with fake_rw=1
> is not really valid (or, maybe I'm doing it wrong) as I know of one case in
> which a real HW scsi driver beats scsi_debug fake_rw=1 at IOPS on the very
> same system, which seems like it shouldn't be possible.  Kind of mysterious.

The test

# disable-frequency-scaling
# modprobe scsi_debug delay=0 fake_rw=1
# echo 2 > /sys/block/sdc/queue/rq_affinity
# echo noop > /sys/block/sdc/queue/scheduler
# echo 0 > /sys/block/sdc/queue/add_random

results in about 800K IOPS for random reads on the same setup (with a 
request size of 4 KB; CPU: quad core i5-2400).

Repeating the same test with fake_rw=0 results in about 651K IOPS.

Bart.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-13 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-11  0:00 SCSI mid layer and high IOPS capable devices scameron
2012-12-11  8:21 ` Bart Van Assche
2012-12-11 22:46   ` scameron
2012-12-13 11:40     ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2012-12-13 18:03       ` scameron
2012-12-13 17:18         ` Bart Van Assche
2012-12-13 15:22 ` Bart Van Assche
2012-12-13 17:25   ` scameron
2012-12-13 16:47     ` Bart Van Assche
2012-12-13 16:49       ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-12-14  9:44         ` Bart Van Assche
2012-12-14 16:44           ` scameron
2012-12-14 16:15             ` Bart Van Assche
2012-12-14 19:55               ` scameron
2012-12-14 19:28                 ` Bart Van Assche
2012-12-14 21:06                   ` scameron
2012-12-15  9:40                     ` Bart Van Assche
2012-12-19 14:23                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-12-13 21:20       ` scameron
2012-12-14  0:22       ` Jack Wang
     [not found]         ` <CADzpL0TMT31yka98Zv0=53N4=pDZOc9+gacnvDWMbj+iZg4H5w@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <006301cdd99c$35099b40$9f1cd1c0$@com>
     [not found]             ` <CADzpL0S5cfCRQftrxHij8KOjKj55psSJedmXLBQz1uQm_SC30A@mail.gmail.com>
2012-12-14  4:59               ` Jack Wang

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