Re: disk/crypto performance regression 2.6.31 -> 2.6.32 (mmapproblem?)

From: Mikael Abrahamsson
Date: Mon Feb 22 2010 - 07:39:42 EST


On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

I have a system with 8 gigs of ram, c2d 2.4GHz and md raid6->crypto->lvm/lv->xfs that I've had for quite a while. It used to be raid5, but with 2.6.32 I was able to restripe it into a raid6.

This is not a 2.6.32 regression, the behaviour is similar in 2.6.31 I have verified during the weekend.

It seems iostat isn't really able to see exactly where the bottleneck is, and my guess right now is that it's indeed the md raid6 layer that is causing my performance problems, even though it doesn't look like it in iostat.

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