In my opinion there should be article published about this, describing fs-cache generally, and these kinds of benchmarks!
Using fs-cache for network filesystem is an important issue, and should get "exposure". Stef Bon 2010/7/23 Andreas Dilger <[email protected]>: > On 2010-07-22, at 11:40, David Howells wrote: >> Suresh Jayaraman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> As it can been seen, the performance while reading when data is cache >>> hot (disk) is not great as the network link is a Gigabit ethernet (with >>> server having working set in memory) which is mostly expected. >> >> That's what I see with NFS and AFS too. >> >>> (I could not get access to a slower network (say 100 Mb/s) where the real >>> performance boost could be evident). > > More interesting than a slow network is testing with more clients. 10 > clients should be able to get 10x the read performance from the client-local > cache, probably more than the server's peak disk/network bandwidth. > > Cheers, Andreas > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
