Re: Multi disk performance (8 disks), limit 230 MB/s

From: Roman Dementiev (dementiev@mpi-sb.mpg.de)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 11:00:06 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:

> Roman Dementiev wrote:
> >
> > 8 disks: 214 ? 229 ? 40 % 6.7 / 0.8 /10.8
> >
>
> raw access in 2.4 isn't very good - it uses 512-byte chunks. If
> you can hunt down the `rawvary' patch that might help, but I don't
> know if it works against IDE.
>
> Testing 2.5 would be interesting ;)

I still can't run it, 'interrupt lost' ...

>
>
> Try the same test with O_DIRECT reads or writes against ext2 filesystems.
> That will use 4k blocks.

Thanx, it works. I have got 375 MB/s.

Roman

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