Re: sw raid0 read bottleneck

2007-03-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mark Hahn wrote: 15 drives and 64K chunks gives 960K per stripe. The raid0 code should set the read-ahead to twice that: 1920K which I would have thought would be enough, but apparently not. choosing the RA size should depend in some way on speed, shouldn't it? after all, the goal is to have

Re: sw raid0 read bottleneck

2007-03-14 Thread Mark Hahn
15 drives and 64K chunks gives 960K per stripe. The raid0 code should set the read-ahead to twice that: 1920K which I would have thought would be enough, but apparently not. choosing the RA size should depend in some way on speed, shouldn't it? after all, the goal is to have enough reads queued

Re: sw raid0 read bottleneck

2007-03-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mark Hahn wrote: 15 drives and 64K chunks gives 960K per stripe. The raid0 code should set the read-ahead to twice that: 1920K which I would have thought would be enough, but apparently not. choosing the RA size should depend in some way on speed, shouldn't it? after all, the goal is to have

sw raid0 read bottleneck

2007-03-13 Thread Tomka Gergely
Hi! I am currently testing 3ware raid cards. Now i have 15 disks, and on these a swraid0. The write speed seems good (700 MBps), but the read performance only 350 MBps. Another problem when i try to read with two process, then the _sum_ of the read speeds fall back to 200 MBps. So there is a

Re: sw raid0 read bottleneck

2007-03-13 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Tomka Gergely wrote: Hi! I am currently testing 3ware raid cards. Now i have 15 disks, and on these a swraid0. The write speed seems good (700 MBps), but the read performance only 350 MBps. Another problem when i try to read with two process, then the _sum_ of the read

Re: sw raid0 read bottleneck

2007-03-13 Thread Tomka Gergely
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: Have you tried increasing your readahead values for the md device? Yes. No real change. According to my humble mental image, readahead not a too useful thing, when we read 1-4 thread with sdd. The io subsystem already reading with the possible maximum

Re: sw raid0 read bottleneck

2007-03-13 Thread Tomka Gergely
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Tomka Gergely wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: Have you tried increasing your readahead values for the md device? Yes. No real change. According to my humble mental image, readahead not a too useful thing, when we read 1-4 thread with sdd. The io

Re: sw raid0 read bottleneck

2007-03-13 Thread Justin Piszcz
Nice. On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Tomka Gergely wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Tomka Gergely wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: Have you tried increasing your readahead values for the md device? Yes. No real change. According to my humble mental image, readahead not a too useful

Re: sw raid0 read bottleneck

2007-03-13 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday March 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Tomka Gergely wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: Have you tried increasing your readahead values for the md device? Yes. No real change. According to my humble mental image, readahead not a too

Re: sw raid0 read bottleneck

2007-03-13 Thread Tomka Gergely
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Neil Brown wrote: On Tuesday March 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Tomka Gergely wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: Have you tried increasing your readahead values for the md device? Yes. No real change. According to my