Cameron Harr wrote:

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# sgp_dd dio=1 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fioa bs=512 bpt=2048 count=16777216 time=1

This is only 8 GB of IO. It is possible that (despite dio) you are caching. Make the IO much larger than RAM. Use a count of 128m or so.


time to transfer data was 5.556115 secs, 1546.03 MB/sec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# sg_dd dio=1 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fioa bs=512 bpt=2048 count=16777216 time=1
time to transfer data: 5.565360 secs at 1543.46 MB/sec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dd oflag=direct if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fioa bs=1M count=8192
8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 12.7761 seconds, 672 MB/s

We have found dd to be quite trustworthy with [oi]flag=direct.

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Using iSer, with the small transfer chunks, sgp_dd has numbers that are in line with what I'd expect for DIO while sg_dd doesn't:
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sgp_dd:  200.64 MB/s
sg_dd:   735.42 MB/s
dd:     62.3 MB/s
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But for larger transfers (with 1M block transfers), both sgp_dd and sg_dd show well above what I think I can be getting:
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sgp_dd: 882.43
sg_dd:   819.89
dd:      731 MB/s #Which is still high, and which makes me suspect iSer

We had iSER bouncing from low 200s through 1000 MB/s during testing. Very hard to pin down good stable benchmark times. This was a few months ago.

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