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From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: A little RAID experiment
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:18:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50061CEA.4070609@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120717052621.GB23387@dastard>

On 7/17/2012 12:26 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:
...
> I bet it's single threaded, which means it is:

The data given seems to strongly suggest a single thread.

> Which means throughput is limited by IO latency, not bandwidth.
> If it takes 10us to do the write(2), issue and process the IO
> completion, and it takes 10us for the hardware to do the IO, you're
> limited to 50,000 IOPS, or 200MB/s. Given that the best being seen
> is around 35MB/s, you're looking at around 10,000 IOPS of 100us
> round trip time. At 5MB/s, it's 1200 IOPS or around 800us round
> trip.
> 
> That's why you get different performance from the different raid
> controllers - some process cache hits a lot faster than others.
...
> IOWs, welcome to Understanding RAID Controller Caching Behaviours
> 101 :)

It would be somewhat interesting to see Stefan's latency and throughput
numbers for 4/8/16 threads.  Maybe the sysbench "--num-threads=" option
is the ticket.  The docs state this is for testing scheduler
performance, and it's not clear whether this actually does threaded IO.
 If not, time for a new IO benchmark.

-- 
Stan

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-18  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-25  8:07 A little RAID experiment Stefan Ring
2012-04-25 14:17 ` Roger Willcocks
2012-04-25 16:23   ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-27 14:03     ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-26  8:53   ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-27 15:10     ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-27 15:28     ` Joe Landman
2012-04-28  4:42       ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-27 13:50 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-05-01 10:46   ` Stefan Ring
2012-05-30 11:07     ` Stefan Ring
2012-05-31  1:30       ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-05-31  6:44         ` Stefan Ring
2012-07-16 19:57 ` Stefan Ring
2012-07-16 20:03   ` Stefan Ring
2012-07-16 20:05     ` Stefan Ring
2012-07-16 21:27   ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-07-16 21:58     ` Stefan Ring
2012-07-17  1:39       ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-07-17  5:26         ` Dave Chinner
2012-07-18  2:18           ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2012-07-18  6:44             ` Stefan Ring
2012-07-18  7:09               ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-07-18  7:22                 ` Stefan Ring
2012-07-18 10:24                   ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-07-18 12:32                     ` Stefan Ring
2012-07-18 12:37                       ` Stefan Ring
2012-07-19  3:08                         ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-07-25  9:29                           ` Stefan Ring
2012-07-25 10:00                             ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-07-25 10:08                               ` Stefan Ring
2012-07-25 11:00                                 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-07-26  8:32                             ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-11 16:37                               ` Stefan Ring
2012-07-16 22:16     ` Stefan Ring
2012-10-10 14:57 ` Stefan Ring
2012-10-10 21:27   ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-10 22:01     ` Stefan Ring
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-04-26 22:33 Richard Scobie
2012-04-27 21:30 ` Emmanuel Florac
2012-04-28  4:15   ` Richard Scobie

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