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From: "J. Ryan Earl" <heretic@clanhk.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Status of the sata_sil driver for the VT8237
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:40:31 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4067383F.1030805@clanhk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4067340A.5080709@pobox.com>

Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Do you really plan to get 300MB/sec from two disks?  :)


Yes, for about 50-100ms at a time, and -to- the disks, not from them; 
well, the caches anyway.  On 133MB/s PCI, more like 150-300ms of 
saturation on bursts, and shared with the NICs.  I have very short and 
bursty I/O patterns as is typical in real-time applications.  It's 
easier to guarantee latency when your pipes are always at a small 
fraction of their potential.  100ms higher latency, even for part of a 
second, is quite noticeable in what I serve.

-ryan

PS 2.6 dropped my latencies under load by about 90% over 2.4!  We're 
talking 40-80ms application response time under high load to 8-10ms 
under high load.  <3

      reply	other threads:[~2004-03-28 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-28  2:10 Status of the sata_sil driver for the VT8237 J. Ryan Earl
2004-03-28  3:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28  3:47   ` J. Ryan Earl
2004-03-28  7:37     ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-28  7:48       ` J. Ryan Earl
2004-03-28 20:22         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 20:40           ` J. Ryan Earl [this message]

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