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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Paa Paa <paapaa125@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: Lower HD transfer rate with NCQ enabled?
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:06:40 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46130830.7040307@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY20-F2534ADD292CC02D5ACAFBCF9670@phx.gbl>

Paa Paa wrote:
>>> Q: What conclusion can I make on "hdparm -t" results or can I make 
>>> any conclusions? Do I really have lower performance with NCQ or not? 
>>> If I do, is this because of my HD or because of kernel?
>>
>>
>> What IO scheduler are you using? If AS or CFQ, could you try with 
>> deadline?
> 
> 
> I was using CFQ. I now tried with Deadline and that doesn't seem to 
> degrade the performance at all! With Deadline I got 60MB/s both with and 
> without NCQ. This was with "hdparm -t".
> 
> So what does this tell us?

Thanks. I believe CFQ contains some code to keep NCQ depths managable,
which might be causing the problem. I've cc'ed the CFQ author (Jens)
who might be able to give some more ideas.

Thanks for reporting!

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-04  2:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-03  7:11 Lower HD transfer rate with NCQ enabled? Paa Paa
2007-04-03  9:18 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-03 21:31   ` Paa Paa
2007-04-04  2:06     ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2007-04-06 21:33     ` Bill Davidsen
2007-04-03 16:31 ` Chris Snook
2007-04-03 16:47   ` Mark Lord
2007-04-03 19:17     ` Phillip Susi
2007-04-04 15:36       ` Mark Lord
2007-04-05 15:30         ` Phillip Susi
2007-04-05 16:11           ` Mark Lord
2007-04-05 16:45             ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-04-09 14:46             ` Phillip Susi
2007-04-10  3:58               ` Mark Lord
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-04-05 16:26 Paa Paa

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