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From: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS vs Elevators (was Re: [PATCH RFC] nilfs2: continuous snapshotting file system)
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:33:50 +0300 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0808212031050.4532@dhcppc2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0808211447060.4532@dhcppc2>


On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 04:04:18PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > 
> > > One thing I just found out - my old *laptop* is 4-5x faster than the
> > > 10krpm scsi disk behind an old cciss raid controller.  I'm wondering
> > > if the long delays in dispatch is caused by an interaction with CTQ
> > > but I can't change it on the cciss raid controllers. Are you using
> > > ctq/ncq on your machine?  
> 
> It's a laptop and has NCQ. It makes no difference if NCQ is enabled or 
> disabled. The problem seems to be XFS only.

The 'nobarrier' mount option made a big improvement:

                    MB/s    Runtime (s)
                   -----    -----------
  btrfs unstable   17.09        572
  ext3             13.24        877
  btrfs 0.16       12.33        793
  nilfs2 2nd+ runs 11.29        674
  ntfs-3g           8.55        865
  reiserfs          8.38        966
  xfs nobarrier     7.89        949
  nilfs2 1st run    4.95       3800
  xfs               1.88       3901

	Szaka
 
-- 
NTFS-3G:  http://ntfs-3g.org

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-21 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080820004326.519405a2.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
     [not found] ` <200808201613.AA00212@capsicum.lab.ntt.co.jp>
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.61.0808202352450.4532@dhcppc2>
     [not found]     ` <20080820143916.1a7eddab.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]       ` <20080821021259.GA5706@disturbed>
     [not found]         ` <Pine.LNX.4.62.0808210535450.25448@tamago.serverit.net>
2008-08-21  5:15           ` XFS vs Elevators (was Re: [PATCH RFC] nilfs2: continuous snapshotting file system) Dave Chinner
2008-08-21  6:00             ` gus3
2008-08-21  6:14               ` Dave Chinner
     [not found]                 ` <200808211700.39584.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
2008-08-21  8:53                   ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-21 14:52                     ` Chris Mason
     [not found]                     ` <200808211933.34565.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
2008-08-21 17:08                       ` Dave Chinner
     [not found]                         ` <200808221229.11069.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
2008-08-25  1:59                           ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-25 12:01                             ` Jamie Lokier
2008-08-26  3:07                               ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-26  3:50                                 ` david
2008-08-27  1:20                                   ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-27 21:54                                     ` david
2008-08-28  1:08                                       ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-21  6:04             ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-21  8:07               ` Aaron Carroll
2008-08-21  8:25               ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-21 11:02                 ` Martin Steigerwald
2008-08-21 15:00                   ` Martin Steigerwald
2008-08-21 17:10                 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-08-21 17:33                   ` Szabolcs Szakacsits [this message]
2008-08-22  2:24                     ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-22  6:49                       ` Martin Steigerwald
2008-08-22 12:44                       ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-08-23 12:52                         ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-08-21 11:53               ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-21 15:56                 ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-21 11:05 Martin Knoblauch
2008-08-21 15:59 ` Dave Chinner

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