Re: performance "regression" in cfq compared to anticipatory, deadline and noop

[Daniel J Blueman]

I've been experiencing this for a while also; an almost 50% regression
is seen for single-process reads (ie sync) if slice_idle is 1ms or
more (eg default of 8) [1], which seems phenomenal.

Jens, is this the expected price to pay for optimal busy-spindle
scheduling, a design issue, bug or am I missing something totally?

Thanks,
  Daniel

--- [1]

# cat /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/slice_idle
8
# echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=64k count=5000
5000+0 records in
5000+0 records out
327680000 bytes (328 MB) copied, 4.92922 s, 66.5 MB/s

# echo 0 >/sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/slice_idle
# echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=64k count=5000
5000+0 records in
5000+0 records out
327680000 bytes (328 MB) copied, 2.74098 s, 120 MB/s

# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   15464 MB in  2.00 seconds = 7741.05 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  342 MB in  3.01 seconds = 113.70 MB/sec

[120MB/s is known platter-rate for this disc, so expected]
-- 
Daniel J Blueman
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