Re: LSI 53c1030 (Fusion MPT) performance with O_SYNC

[Jan Oravec <jan.oravec@6com.sk>]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 12:04:53PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 11:56, Jan Oravec wrote:
> 
> > I've noticed poor performance with MySQL/InnoDB when compared to another
> > S2880-based box with IDE disks.
> 
> your ide disk probably has write back caching enabled while your
> mptfusion doesn't..... if you value data integrity over performance the
> mptfusion has a saner default ;)

It was enabled:

# sginfo -c /dev/sda
Caching mode page (0x8)
-----------------------
Initiator Control                  0
ABPF                               0
CAP                                0
DISC                               1
SIZE                               0
Write Cache Enabled                1
MF                                 0
Read Cache Disabled                0
Demand Read Retention Priority     0
Demand Write Retention Priority    0
Disable Pre-fetch Transfer Length  65535
Minimum Pre-fetch                  0
Maximum Pre-fetch                  0
Maximum Pre-fetch Ceiling          65535
FSW                                1
LBCSS                              0
DRA                                0
Number of Cache Segments           8
Cache Segment size                 0
Non-Cache Segment size             0

When I've disabled it on both mptfusion and IDE, it took 40s on mpt and 83s
on IDE.

It seems like write-cache is not as effective on mptfusion as it is on IDE?

I am considering plugging there a ZCR with battery, so write-cache has a
sense for me.


Jan