Re: low(er) disk performance with sched_4bsd then with sched_ule

From: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann_at_ans-netz.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:20:13 +0200
Scott Long wrote:

> Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> 
> > Any idea where the 30MB/sec drawback comes from and if I missed sth.?
> > I mean why there are 30MB/s more or less is worth to think about imho.
> > 
> 
> Indeed.  This definitely warrants much more testing and investigation. 
> My best guess is that ULE is allowing the uio copies of the data between
> kernel and userland to complete with fewer interruptions.  It could also
> be better about keeping the threads from ping-ponging between CPUs.  Can
> you retest with different block sizes, ranging from 4k to 1m?

http://pofo.de/tmp/dd_ULE.txt
http://pofo.de/tmp/dd_4BSD.txt

btw. the RAID strip size is 64k


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Received on Wed Sep 14 2005 - 18:19:59 UTC

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