Re: raid10: unfair disk load?

2007-12-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Richard Scobie wrote: Jon Nelson wrote: My own tests on identical hardware (same mobo, disks, partitions, everything) and same software, with the only difference being how mdadm is invoked (the only changes here being level and possibly layout) show that raid0 is about 15% faster on reads than

Re: raid10: unfair disk load?

2007-12-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
maobo wrote: Hi,all Yes, Raid10 read balance is the shortest position time first and considering the sequential access condition. But its performance is really poor from my test than raid0. Single-stream write performance of raid0, raid1 and raid10 should be of similar level (with raid5 and

Re: raid10: unfair disk load?

2007-12-23 Thread Jon Nelson
On 12/23/07, maobo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,all Yes, I agree some of you. But in my test both using real life trace and Iometer test I found that for absolutely read requests, RAID0 is better than RAID10 (with same data disks: 3 disks in RAID0, 6 disks in RAID10). I don't know why this

Re: raid10: unfair disk load?

2007-12-23 Thread Richard Scobie
Jon Nelson wrote: My own tests on identical hardware (same mobo, disks, partitions, everything) and same software, with the only difference being how mdadm is invoked (the only changes here being level and possibly layout) show that raid0 is about 15% faster on reads than the very fast raid10,

Re: raid10: unfair disk load?

2007-12-22 Thread Janek Kozicki
Michael Tokarev said: (by the date of Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:56:09 +0300) Janek Kozicki wrote: what's your kernel version? I recall that recently there have been some works regarding load balancing. It was in my original email: The kernel is 2.6.23 Strange I missed the new raid10

Re: raid10: unfair disk load?

2007-12-22 Thread Jon Nelson
On 12/22/07, Janek Kozicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Tokarev said: (by the date of Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:56:09 +0300) Janek Kozicki wrote: what's your kernel version? I recall that recently there have been some works regarding load balancing. It was in my original email:

Re: raid10: unfair disk load?

2007-12-21 Thread Michael Tokarev
Michael Tokarev wrote: I just noticed that with Linux software RAID10, disk usage isn't equal at all, that is, most reads are done from the first part of mirror(s) only. Attached (disk-hour.png) is a little graph demonstrating this (please don't blame me for poor choice of colors and the

Re: raid10: unfair disk load?

2007-12-21 Thread Michael Tokarev
Janek Kozicki wrote: Michael Tokarev said: (by the date of Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:53:38 +0300) I just noticed that with Linux software RAID10, disk usage isn't equal at all, that is, most reads are done from the first part of mirror(s) only. what's your kernel version? I recall that recently