From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Lincoln Dale <ltd@cisco.com>
Cc: Ian.Godin@lowrydigital.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Drive performance bottleneck
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 15:07:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050204150728.6a697e0e.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20050205094038.05323240@171.71.163.14>
Lincoln Dale <ltd@cisco.com> wrote:
>
> sg_dd uses a window into a kernel DMA window. as such, two of the four
> memory acccesses are cut out (1. DMA from HBA to RAM, 2. userspace
> accessing data).
> 1.6Gbps / 2 = 800MB/s -- or roughly what Ian was seeing with sg_dd.
Right. That's a fancy way of saying "cheating" ;)
But from the oprofile output it appears to me that there is plenty of CPU
capacity left over. Maybe I'm misreading it due to oprofile adding in the
SMP factor (25% CPU on a 4-way means we've exhausted CPU capacity).
> DIRECT_IO should achieve similar numbers to sg_dd, but perhaps not quite as
> efficient.
Probably so.
There are various tools in
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz which are
more useful than dd, btw. `odread' and `odwrite' are usful for this sort
of thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-04 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-03 2:24 Ian Godin
2005-02-03 3:56 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-02-03 16:49 ` Ian Godin
2005-02-03 16:06 ` Jens Axboe
2005-02-03 17:40 ` Nuno Silva
2005-02-03 18:08 ` Ian Godin
2005-02-03 19:03 ` Paulo Marques
2005-02-04 19:36 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-02-04 9:32 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-04 22:51 ` Lincoln Dale
2005-02-04 23:07 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-02-06 4:25 ` Nuno Silva
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