Re: Why is NCQ enabled by default by libata? (2.6.20)

Tejun Heo
2007-03-27T10:10:31Z

Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Checking the benchmarks on various hardware websites, anandtech,
> hothardware and others, they generally all come to the same conclusion
> if there is only 1 thread using I/O (single user system) then NCQ off is
> the best.

Are they testing using Linux? I/O performance is highly dependent on
workload and scheduling, so result on windows wouldn't be very useful.
Posting some links here would be nice.

> I see 30-50MB/s faster speeds with NCQ turned off on two
> different SW RAID5s.

You're testing raptors, right? If the performance drop is that drastic
and consistent over different workloads, we'll have to disable NCQ for
raptors. I'm not sure about other drives. Care to perform tests over
more popular ones (e.g. recent seagates or 7200rpm wds)?

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tejun